Cannon

(noun.) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals.

(noun.) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels.

(noun.) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane.

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

(noun.) heavy gun fired from a tank.

(verb.) fire a cannon.

(verb.) make a cannon.

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• Pin-pricks hurt more than cannon balls, and incessant worries are far more painful than great calamities. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• We lived at the top of the last house, and the wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like discharges of cannon, or breakings of a sea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Rifled cannon were first employed in actual service in Louis Napoleon’s Italian campaign of 1859, and were first introduced in the United States service by General James in 1861. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A form of breech-loading cannon was introduced in the sixteenth century, but the advantageous use of this device is of late invention. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The feature of importance in the cannon which contributed most to its efficiency was the rifling of the bore with spiral grooves. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Cannon were made of all sizes and calibres, but were not arranged in battle with much precision. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst something inside my ear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When the large cannons in the forts on our coast are discharged during target practice, there are usually a lot of windows broken in the nearby houses. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Cannons are subject to great stress in firing, this being of two kinds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Cannons were fired and much tallow consumed in illumination. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• To return to cannons:--In 1812 Colonel Bomford, an American officer, invented what is called the Columbiad, a kind of cannon best adapted for sea-coast purposes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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