cannon

adj

1. Misspelling of canon.

name

Etymology: * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Canann (“descendant of Cana”), Ó Canáin (“descendant of Canán”), from cana (“wolf cub”). Comparable to McCann, McConnon, Connon. * As an English surname, from the noun canon. * As a French surname, variant of Canon.

1. A surname.

   “The hearing in front of Judge Aileen M. Cannon at a federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla., could touch on other issues, including the scheduling of the trial.”

noun

1. Misspelling of canon.

verb

Etymology: Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na) (for more, see cane). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

1. To bombard with cannons.
2. To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.

   “The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.”

3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

   “Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.”

4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

   “[…] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.”

   “She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.”