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cannon English

Meaning cannon meaning

What does cannon mean?

cannon

a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm heavy gun fired from a tank lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals make a cannon fire a cannon (= carom) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

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Topics cannon topics

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Examples cannon examples

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Simple sentences

Never use a cannon to kill a fly.
He's a loose cannon.
This problem certainly requires a solution, but that's like shooting a cannon at sparrows.
The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts much longer.
The cannon! They're loading the cannon! Why? Ah! They're going to shoot! Pick up speed - one, two, one, two!
The soldiers were regarded as cannon fodder.

Movie subtitles

But they were ready to meet any resistance with cannon fire and cutlass.
Our children aren't cannon fodder for the rich anymore.
You take it easy with that cannon of yours.
I don't need no cannon to take care of guys like you, Mr. Lorch.
Put this man over the cannon.
Tony, do you realise there won't be a bullet, gun or cannon made here without us?
They'll probably come with cannon.
There's not a cannon factory in the whole South.
During the late war, when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln and General Phil Sheridan, well sir I fought 'mid shock and shell and cannon roar.
Drop that cannon. Put your hands up.
Oh, they'll clap us in jail the minute we dump. our cannon.
You're under my cannon, and I can blast you out of the. water with a wink.
Leech and his crew are sailing into Maracaibo. expecting to find a few cannon and an old stone wall.
Instead, they're finding 100 cannon.
Her father, our King. brought up this child as a boy. accustomed her ears to the sound of cannon fire. and sought to mold her spirit after his own.
Let's load them in the cannon!
Let's get the cannon and give them a parting shot!
What can clubs do against cannon?
Cannon rapid fire.
Oh, that's the cannon from New Orleans.
It's the fever cannon down in the city.
Fever cannon?
And the Washington artillery fire a cannon to fight the plague.
And now the mighty Goliath. will catch three 100-pound balls shot from cannon.
See the cannon that shoots a human being.
Will somebody quit firing cannon under my windows?
Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, regiment your lives, tell you what to think and feel, who drill you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder.
Was that cannon fire?
And the nimble gunner with linstock now the devilish cannon touches, and down goes all before them!
That cannon, ladies and gentlemen, is fired off every day to indicate the noon hour.
No one around here could hit a freight car with a cannon.
Our planes are armed with cannon, machine guns and rockets.
It's the big cannon again, sir.
How can a seven-ton 42ft cannon slip through your fingers and leave no rust?
General Jouvet wants that cannon.
The English want that cannon too.
General Larena is to turn over to him a huge cannon and the men to haul it to Santander.

News and current affairs

Yet Syrian civilians are the cannon fodder.
The problem with the Supreme Leader's calculation, however, is that Ahmadinejad is a loose cannon.
In 2014, after China stationed an oil rig in waters claimed by Vietnam, ships from the two countries engaged in ramming and water-cannon battles at sea; anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam followed.

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