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| Substantiv |
| 1. | top | ingenjörsvetenskap |
| 2. | savaş topu | ingenjörsvetenskap |
Definitioner
Substantiv
- 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.
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]- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
- (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- (printing) (a large size of type)
Verb
- To bombard with cannons
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
Exempel
- In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
- He's got a cannon out in right.
- The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
- Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.
- They fired 21 cannons in a twenty-one gun salute.
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