cannon

1. A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
2. Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
3. A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
4. A cannon bit.
5. A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
6. A carom.

   In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

7. The arm of a player that can throw well.

   He's got a cannon out in right.

8. A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
9. (Chinese chess) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.

1. To bombard with cannons.
2. To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball

   The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

1. A generally accepted principle; a rule.

   The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

2. A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
3. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

   the entire Shakespeare canon

4. A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
5. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

   We must proceed according to canon law.

6. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
7. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
8. A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
9. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

   Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.

10. (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
11. Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.

    A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.

12. A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

    a canon of beef or lamb

13. A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
14. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
15. A carom.

1. A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
2. A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

noun

A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.