Culverin vs. Cannon — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Culverin and Cannon
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Culverin
A culverin was a relatively simple ancestor of the musket, and later a medieval cannon, adapted for use by the French as the "couleuvrine" (from couleuvre "grass snake") in the 15th century, and later adapted for naval use by the English in the late 16th century. The culverin was used to bombard targets from a distance.
Cannon
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.
Culverin
An early, crudely made musket.
Cannon
A large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare
They would cross at the Town ford, under cover of the defending cannon
Culverin
A long heavy cannon used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Cannon
A stroke in which the cue ball strikes two balls successively.
Culverin
A kind of handgun.
Cannon
A heavy cylinder or hollow drum that is able to rotate independently on a shaft.
Culverin
A large cannon.
Cannon
Collide with something forcefully or at an angle
His shot cannoned off the crossbar
The couple behind almost cannoned into us
Culverin
A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.
Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin.
Cannon
Make a cannon shot.
Culverin
A heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries
Cannon
A weapon, typically mounted, that fires heavy projectiles from a cylindrical barrel. Cannons include guns, howitzers, and mortars.
Culverin
A medieval musket
Cannon
The loop at the top of a bell by which it is hung.
Cannon
A round bit for a horse.
Cannon
(Zoology) The section of the lower leg in some hoofed mammals between the hock or knee and the fetlock, containing the cannon bone.
Cannon
Chiefly British A carom made in billiards.
Cannon
To bombard with cannon.
Cannon
Chiefly British To cause to carom in billiards.
Cannon
To fire cannon.
Cannon
Chiefly British To make a carom in billiards.
Cannon
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.
Cannon
Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
Water cannon
Glitter cannon
Cannon
An autocannon.
Cannon
A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
Cannon
A cannon bit.
Cannon
(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
Cannon
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.
Cannon
The arm of a player who can throw well.
He's got a cannon out in right.
Cannon
(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
Cannon
(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.
Cannon
Alternative form of canon
Cannon
(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.
Cannon
A pickpocket.
Cannon
To bombard with cannons.
Cannon
To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
Cannon
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
Cannon
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
Cannon
(fandom slang) canon
Cannon
A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
Cannon
A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
Cannon
A kind of type. See Canon.
Cannon
See Carom.
Cannon
To discharge cannon.
Cannon
To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound.
He heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it - crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
Cannon
A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
Cannon
Heavy gun fired from a tank
Cannon
(Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
Cannon
Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
Cannon
Lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
Cannon
A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
Cannon
Make a cannon
Cannon
Fire a cannon
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