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CANNON
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English
English : variant spelling of Cannon.
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Scottish
From the cannon's seat.
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French American
Church official.
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English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : variant of Cannon ‘canon’, taken from the central French form chanun, as opposed to Norman canun.
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Scottish
Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Canann or Ó Canann (Ulster), or Ó Canáin (County Galway) ‘son (Mac) or descendant (Ó) of Canán’, a personal name derived from cano ‘wolf cub’. In Ulster it may also be from Ó Canannáin ‘descendant of Canannán’, a diminutive of the personal name.English : from Middle English canun ‘canon’ (Old Norman French canonie, canoine, from Late Latin canonicus). In medieval England this term denoted a clergyman living with others in a clergy house; the surname is mostly an occupational name for a servant in a house of canons, although it could also be a nickname or even a patronymic.
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a.
Furnished with cannon.
n.
A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
n.
Fig.; A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
a.
Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.
pl.
of Cannon
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cannonade
n.
Cannon, collectively; artillery.
n.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
v. t.
To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
n.
A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
v. t.
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
n.
Alt. of Cannonier
v. t.
To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.
v. i.
To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
imp. & p. p.
of Cannonade
pl.
of Cannon
n.
Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.
n.
A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
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The use of cannon.
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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.