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noun
- A large, heavy gun usually mounted on a carriage
- A heavy-caliber automatic aircraft gun firing explosive shells
- Any device for propelling a substance or object at high speeds
"an air cannon"
- The projecting part of a bell by which it is hung ear
- The part of the leg in which the cannon bone is found
- A very strong throwing arm
"While Hershberger had a quick, accurate arm, Lombardi had a cannon."
- a large, heavy gun usually mounted on a carriage
- a heavy-caliber automatic aircraft gun firing explosive shells
- any device for propelling a substance or object at high speeds
verb
- To discharge cannon
- Cannonade
biographical name
- Joseph Gurney 1836–1926 Uncle Joe American politician
noun
- A regulation or dogma decreed by a church council
- A provision of canon law
- The most solemn and unvarying part of the Mass including the consecration of the bread and wine
- An authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture
- The authentic works of a writer
"the Chaucer canon"
- A sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works
"the canon of great literature"
- An accepted principle or rule
- A criterion or standard of judgment
"the canons of good taste"
- A body of principles, rules, standards, or norms
"according to newspaper canon … a big story calls for a lot of copy"
- A contrapuntal musical composition in which each successively entering voice presents the initial theme usually transformed in a strictly consistent way
noun
- A clergyman belonging to the chapter or the staff of a cathedral or collegiate church
- Canon regular
noun
- A deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it
- Something resembling a canyon
"the city's concrete canyons"
noun
- A bone in hoofed mammals that extends from the knee or hock to the fetlock
noun
- Soldiers regarded or treated as expendable in battle
- An expendable or exploitable person, group, or thing
"celebrities who have become cannon fodder for the tabloids"
noun
- A dangerously uncontrollable person or thing
noun
- A large truck-mounted nozzle for directing a high-pressure stream of water (as at a crowd of rioters or demonstrators)
This clue was used on June 11, 2025.
This clue has been used several times with the same answer. It also appeared on these dates:
January 24, 2025