broadside vs cannon

broadside

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

noun
  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

cannon

verb
  • To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound. 

  • To bombard with cannons. 

  • To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly. 

  • To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball. 

noun
  • A cannon bit. 

  • Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube. 

  • An autocannon. 

  • A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages. 

  • The arm of a player who can throw well. 

  • A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock. 

  • A large muzzle-loading artillery piece. 

  • A carom. 

  • A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. 

  • 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. 

  • A cylindrical item of plate armor 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. 

  • A pickpocket. 

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