Culverin vs. Cannon

Culverinnoun

A kind of handgun.

Cannonnoun

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.

Culverinnoun

A large cannon.

Cannonnoun

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

‘water cannon’; ‘glitter cannon’;

Culverinnoun

A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles.

‘Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin.’;

Cannonnoun

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

Culverinnoun

a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries

Cannonnoun

(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

Culverinnoun

a medieval musket

Cannonnoun

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.’;

Culverin

A culverin was a relatively simple ancestor of the musket, and later a medieval cannon, adapted for use by the French as the (from couleuvre ) 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.

‘couleuvrine’; ‘grass snake’;

Cannonnoun

The arm of a player that can throw well.

‘He's got a cannon out in right.’;

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonnoun

(printing) lang=en (a large size of type)

Cannonnoun

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.

Cannonverb

To bombard with cannons.

Cannonverb

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

‘The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.’;

Cannonverb

To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

Cannonverb

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

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonnoun

A kind of type. See Canon.

Cannonnoun

See Carom.

Cannonverb

To discharge cannon.

Cannonverb

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.’;

Cannonnoun

a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels

Cannonnoun

heavy gun fired from a tank

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonnoun

heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonverb

make a cannon

Cannonverb

fire a cannon

Cannonnoun

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’;

Cannonnoun

a heavy automatic gun that fires shells from an aircraft or tank

‘the gunships blasted arms depots with 105 mm cannon fire and rockets’;

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonnoun

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

Cannonverb

collide with something forcefully or at an angle

‘his shot cannoned off the crossbar’; ‘the couple behind almost cannoned into us’;

Cannonverb

make a cannon shot.

Cannon

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

‘black powder’;