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In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(historical) A cylindrical item of platearmor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century.
1972, Claude Blair, European Armour: Circa 1066 to Circa 1700:
During the second half of the century the upper cannons were often joined to the pauldrons […] Here the cannons and the couter, although separate, are joined together when worn by the points securing them to the arming […]
2007, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178:
The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets. The arm defenses were almost always in one piece, the lower and upper cannons joined permanently to the couter with internal leathers and rivets, and the whole frequently also joined permanently to the pauldron.
(xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
1977, Robert S. Weppner, Street ethnography, page 70:
I also learned never to conspicuoulsy watch a cannon while he was working. Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous.
2009, James Thomson, Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition, page 377:
A good pickpocket is known to his fellows as a pistol. Rufus Dayne is a cannon. One of the best pickpockets in the country, he makes close to a million dollars a year and has no criminal record at all.
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2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
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.
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
1898, Rudyard Kipling, “The Maltese Cat”, in The Day's Work:
[…] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.