Artillery vs. Cannon

Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons built to launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines.

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, and usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder during the late 19th century.

Large-caliber weapons, such as cannon, howitzers, and missile launchers, that are operated by crews.

a large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare

The branch of an army that specializes in the use of such weapons.

a stroke in which the cue ball strikes two balls successively.

The science of the use of guns; gunnery.

a heavy cylinder or hollow drum that is able to rotate independently on a shaft.

Weapons, such as catapults, arbalests, and other early devices, used for discharging missiles.

collide with something forcefully or at an angle

Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.

make a cannon shot.

An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.

A weapon, typically mounted, that fires heavy projectiles from a cylindrical barrel. Cannons include guns, howitzers, and mortars.

Gunnery.

The loop at the top of a bell by which it is hung.

Weapons.

A round bit for a horse.

Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.

(Zoology) The section of the lower leg in some hoofed mammals between the hock or knee and the fetlock, containing the cannon bone.

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

Chiefly British A carom made in billiards.

The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

To bombard with cannon.

The science of artillery or gunnery.

Chiefly British To cause to carom in billiards.

large but transportable armament

To fire cannon.

an army unit that uses big guns

Chiefly British To make a carom in billiards.

a means of persuading or arguing;

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.

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

An autocannon.

A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

A cannon bit.

(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

A carom.

The arm of a player who can throw well.

(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

(historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.

alternative form of canon

(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.

A pickpocket.

To bombard with cannons.

To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.

To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

(fandom slang) canon

A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.

A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

A kind of type. See Canon.

See Carom.

To discharge cannon.

To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.

a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

heavy gun fired from a tank

(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm

heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals

a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

make a cannon

fire a cannon