cannon vs dipper

cannon

noun
  • A pickpocket. 

  • 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. 

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. 

dipper

noun
  • A pickpocket. 

  • A Baptist or Dunker. 

  • A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them. 

  • Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce. 

  • The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles. 

  • A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop. 

  • Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom. 

  • One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid). 

  • A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea. 

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