2. Verb. (third-person singular of cannon) ¹
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Definition of Cannons
1. cannon [v] - See also: cannon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannons
Literary usage of Cannons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military Manners and Customs by James Anson Farrer (1885)
"cannons and bombs were at first called diabolical, because they suggested the
malice of the enemy of mankind, or serpentines, because they seemed worse than ..."
2. My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell (1863)
"Bitters before breakfast—An old Crimean acquaintance—Earthworks and batteries—Estimate
of cannons—Magazines—Hospitality— English and . ..."
3. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Pierre-Mathurin de L'Ecluse des Loges (1812)
"The Pope for this expedition should have furnished eight thousand foot, twelve
hundred horse, ten cannons, and ten galleys; the Emperor and the circles of ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... simplicity, hope and fear, those two battering cannons and principal engines,
with their objects, reward and punishment, purgatory, Limbus Patrum, &c., ..."
5. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... simplicity, hope and fear, those two haltering cannons and principal engines,
with their objects, reward and punishment, purgatory, Limbus Patrum, &c., ..."
6. Contributions to Literature: Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical by Mark Anthony Lower (1854)
"These hooped guns were at length superseded by cannons cast in an entire piece,
... The first iron cannons cast in England were manufactured at Buxted, ..."
7. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c.: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea by Sir Adolphus Slade (1833)
"Philippopolis is subject to earthquakes; yet, on the highest crag, almost
inaccessible, were three cannons, for the ostensible purpose of commanding the ..."
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