cannon vs rollover

cannon

noun
  • The arm of a player who can throw well. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To bombard with cannons. 

  • To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly. 

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

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

rollover

noun
  • A target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it. 

  • A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it. 

  • A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns. 

  • In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week. 

  • The reinvestment of funds in a new issue of the same or similar investment. 

  • The process of incrementing, especially back to an initial value. 

  • A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly. 

  • A fee paid by a borrower in order to defer full repayment of a loan. 

  • The sudden ignition of flammable gasses (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space. 

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