Carom vs. Cannon — What's the Difference?

A collision followed by a rebound.

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.

A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls. Also called billiard.

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

A similar shot in a related game, such as pool.

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

To collide and rebound; glance

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

To make a carom, as in billiards.

Collide with something forcefully or at an angle

To cause to carom.

Make a cannon shot.

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.

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

(uncountable) A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

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

(spices) ajwain

A round bit for a horse.

(intransitive) To make a carom shot in billiards.

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

To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.

Chiefly British A carom made in billiards.

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

To bombard with cannon.

To make a carom.

Chiefly British To cause to carom in billiards.

A glancing rebound

To fire cannon.

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

Chiefly British To make a carom in billiards.

Rebound after hitting;

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.

Make a carom

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