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chicken cannons

chicken cannons is the plural of chicken cannon.

Meaning of chicken cannon

Noun

chicken cannon (plural chicken cannons)

  1. A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts.
    • The Air Force has a device known as "the chicken cannon." Recently killed chickens are fired, feathers and all, from a converted cannon.1987 November 22, “Military has long history of using animals”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, page A15

Questions about chicken cannons

What is chicken cannons the plural of?
Chicken cannons is the plural of chicken cannon.

Words near chicken cannons in the dictionary

  1. chicken bus
  2. chicken buses
  3. chicken button
  4. chicken buttons
  5. chicken cannon
  6. chicken cannons
  7. chicken cholera
  8. chicken colonel
  9. chicken colonels
  10. chicken coop
  11. chicken coops

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