The lack of a cannon is a particular problem, as the F-35 is being counted on to help out infantrymen under fire.
Another common prank was to spin the cannon in the direction of the major, causing him to leap out of the way.
As a prolific and early entry in the cannon of television drama, The Twilight Zone never fully disappeared from the airwaves.
cannon revealed that, "we have been living in separate houses for a few months."
Once the indictment dropped, cannon quickly resigned his office.
Christina is a soldier's daughter, and must learn to bear the noise of cannon.
Yes, madame; I wish it were a cannon in defence of La Pologne.
My heart began suddenly to feel like a cannon ball, in my breast.
And the thunder of galloping hoofs was more menacing than that of the cannon.
The reports of the rifles and cannon kept every one alert and watchful.
c.1400, "tube for projectiles," from Anglo-French canon, Old French canon (14c.), from Italian cannone "large tube, barrel," augmentative of Latin canna "reed, tube" (see cane (n.)). Meaning "large ordnance piece," the main modern sense, is from 1520s. Spelling not differentiated from canon till c.1800. Cannon fodder (1891) translates German kanonenfutter (cf. Shakespeare's food for powder in "I Hen. IV").
noun
A professional thief, esp a pickpocket: grand larceny, when a cannon lifts a wallet from a pocket
verb
: You're too small to cannon the street-cars
[1910+ Underworld; based on gun, ''thief,'' fr Yiddish gonif]
