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.
A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
To use a shoehorn.
To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.