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cannoned

cannoned is the simple past and past participle of cannon.

Meaning of cannon

Verb

cannon (third-person singular simple present cannons, present participle cannoning, simple past and past participle cannoned)

  1. To bombard with cannons.
  2. To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
    • The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
  3. To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
    • 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.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC
  4. To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
    • […] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.1898, Rudyard Kipling, “The Maltese Cat”, in The Day's Work

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Adjective

cannoned (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Furnished with cannon.
    • Gilbralter's cannoned steep. — M. Arnold.

Phrases with cannoned

Questions about cannoned

What does cannoned mean?
Cannoned means furnished with cannon.
What is cannoned the simple past and past participle of?
Cannoned is the simple past and past participle of cannon.
What part of speech is cannoned?
Cannoned is an adjective.

Words near cannoned in the dictionary

  1. cannonballer
  2. cannonballers
  3. cannonballing
  4. cannonballs
  5. Cannone
  6. cannoned
  7. cannoneer
  8. cannoneering
  9. cannoneers
  10. cannoner
  11. cannoners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cannoned (page history and authors); cannon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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