Musket vs Cannon - What's the difference?
musket | cannon |
A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been superseded by the rifle.
A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.(JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
(printing) (a large size of type)
To bombard with cannons
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
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As a noun musket
is a species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army it was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted this arm has been superseded by the rifle.As a proper noun cannon is
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Alternative forms
* musquetNoun
(en noun)- Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket , fife and drum.
Derived terms
* musketeerSee also
* ("musket" on Wikipedia) ----cannon
English
Noun
(en-noun)- In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
- He's got a cannon out in right.
Usage notes
The unchanged plural is preferred in Great Britain and Ireland, while North Americans and Australians tend to use the regular plural cannons . On aircraft, autocannons are sometimes called "cannons" for short.Verb
(en verb)- The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
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