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Word Meanings - POMMELION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.

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  • CANNON BONE
    See BONE
  • CANNONADE
    1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
  • CANNONEER; CANNONIER
    A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
  • CANNONED
    Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
  • CASCABEL
    The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. Note:
  • CANNONERING
    The use of cannon. Burke.
  • CANNONRY
    Cannon, collectively; artillery. The ringing of bells and roaring of cannonry proclaimed his course through the country. W. Irving.
  • CANNON
    A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. (more info) 1. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. Note: Cannons are made
  • HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
    Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
  • DEMICANNON
    A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.
  • CANONIC; CANNONICAL
    Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of

 

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