Cannon

1. n. & v. See Carom.
2. pl. of Cannon
3. n. A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force.
4. n. A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
5. n. A kind of type. See Canon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.