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Culverin vs. Cannon — What's the Difference?

Culverin vs. Cannon — What's the Difference?

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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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