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Definition of Cannoned
1. a. Furnished with cannon.
Definition of Cannoned
1. Verb. (past of cannon) ¹
2. Adjective. (poetic) Furnished with cannon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cannoned
1. cannon [v] - See also: cannon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannoned
Literary usage of Cannoned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Letters of Alfred Ainger by Edith Helen Sichel (1906)
"... not even blushin', " He'd then have cannoned off the cushion.'" As to his mere
quickness in retort—his feats in rhyme—we might multiply the instances, ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1903)
"Apropos of being cannoned into, I once had a day with the South Herefordshire,
when a native cannoned me three times in one day. ..."
3. Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin: November 1890 to October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin (1896)
"... reared, cannoned into me, cannoned into Belle and the lad, and bolted for home.
It really might and ought to have been an Ai catastrophe; ..."
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