Cannons
[kænənz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Cannon
Typed by Betsy
Examples
- When the large cannons in the forts on our coast are discharged during target practice, there are usually a lot of windows broken in the nearby houses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cannons are subject to great stress in firing, this being of two kinds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cannons were fired and much tallow consumed in illumination. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To return to cannons:--In 1812 Colonel Bomford, an American officer, invented what is called the Columbiad, a kind of cannon best adapted for sea-coast purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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