cannoning

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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