What is the name meaning of CANNON. Phrases containing CANNON
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CANNON
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English
English : variant spelling of Cannon.
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French American
Church official.
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American, Australian, British, English, French, Indian, Sanskrit
Occupational Name; Official of the Church
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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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Scottish
From the cannon's seat.
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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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English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : variant of Cannon ‘canon’, taken from the central French form chanun, as opposed to Norman canun.
CANNON
CANNON
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Tamil
Sunflower seed
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Strange Love
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Latin
Blind.
Female
Slovene
Slovene form of Greek Apollonia, APOLONIJA means "of Apollo."
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African, Arabic, French, Polish
Helper to the Priest
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Indian
Design
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English Scandinavian American
Medieval given name from Scandinavian mythology. Also English surname referring to a water crossing.
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Arabic, Muslim
Unique (Manifestation) of the Religion Islam
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Arabic, Indian, Iranian, Muslim, Parsi
Goddess
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Victory of the Lotus
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CANNON
pl.
of Cannon
n.
Cannon, collectively; artillery.
n.
A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.
n.
Alt. of Cannonier
n.
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.
n.
A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
n.
The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a 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.
n.
The use of cannon.
v. t.
To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.
pl.
of Cannon
a.
Furnished with 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.
imp. & p. p.
of Cannonade
v. i.
To discharge cannon; as, the army cannonaded all day.
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.
v. t.
To attack with heavy artillery; to batter with cannon shot.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cannonade
v. t.
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.