Word Meanings - CANNONERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The use of cannon. Burke.
Related words: (words related to CANNONERING)
- 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