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S: (n) cannon (a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels)
S: (n) cannon (heavy gun fired from a tank)
S: (n) cannon ((Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm)
S: (n) cannon (heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane)

S: (n) gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))

S: (n) air gun, airgun, air rifle (a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air)
S: (n) antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun (artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes)
S: (n) breechloader (a gun that is loaded at the breech)
S: (n) cannon (heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane)
S: (n) cannon (heavy gun fired from a tank)
S: (n) firearm, piece, small-arm (a portable gun) "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
S: (n) gas gun (a gun that fires gas shells)
S: (n) minute gun ((military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral))
S: (n) Quaker gun (a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood)
S: (n) set gun, spring gun (a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off)
S: (n) whaling gun (a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale)

S: (n) cannon, shank (lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals)
S: (n) carom, cannon (a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other)