A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
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 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.
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.
The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
The main part or beginning of a period of time.
Meat from that part of an animal.
The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
An improvised stabbing weapon.
The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
A loop forming an eye to a button.
The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
Bad.
To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
To stab, especially with an improvised blade.