Word Meanings - CANNONERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The use of cannon. Burke.

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.
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
BURKE
1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
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