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Definition of Cannoning
1. cannon [v] - See also: cannon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cannoning
Literary usage of Cannoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Brittle shot—An angular cannoning shot. Broom cowe—[See COWE]. ... cannoning in
the technical curling sense is the driving of one of the guards (qv) upon ..."
2. Beadle's Monthly (1866)
"The striker roquets first one ball and then another by the same stroke, as in
cannoning at billiards. To what is he entitled ? Merely to one croquet, ..."
3. The Great Canal at Suez: Its Political, Engineering, and Financial History by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1876)
"Our pilot suggested, and I consented to, our having no tug ahead or astern, and
as soon as we cast them off the cannoning ceased. We had touched probably ..."
4. In the Land of Misfortune by Florence Dixie (1882)
"... flag fallen than she swerved violently on one side, and, taking the bit into
her teeth, dashed in amongst the crowd, cannoning every one right and left. ..."
5. Billiards by William Broadfoot, Archibald H. Boyd, Sydenham Dixon, William Justice Ford, Dudley David Pontifex, Russell D. Walker (1896)
"3 strength on P, and it will return to 2" and have a chance of cannoning on 3".
If these strokes are mastered- they give a wide scope for the disturbance of ..."
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