See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

CANNON (a word See also:

• COMMON

common to See also:

• ROMANCE

Romance See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, from the See also:

• LAT

Lat. canna, a See also:

• REED
• REED, ANDREW (1787-1862)
• REED, ISAAC (1742—1807)
• REED, JOSEPH (1741—1785)
• REED, THOMAS BRACKETT (1839—1902)

reed, See also:

• TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)  , a See also:

• GUN

gun or piece of See also:

• ORDNANCE (a syncopated form of " ordinance " or " ordonnance," so spelt in this sense since the 17th century)

ordnance . The word, first found about 1400 (there is an See also:

• INDENTURE (through 0. Fr. endenture from a legal Latin term indent-ura, indentare, to cut into teeth, to give a jagged edge, in modurn dentium, like teeth)

indenture of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry IV . 1407 referring to "canones, seu instrumenta Anglia gunnes vocata"), is commonly applied to any See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of firearm which is fired from a See also:

• CARRIAGE

carriage or fixed mounting, in contradistinction to "small-arms," which are fired without a See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest or support of any See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind.' An exception must be made, however, in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine guns (q.v.), and the word as used in See also:

• MODERN

modern times may be defined as follows: "a piece of ordnance mounted upon a fixed or movable carriage and firing a projectile of greater calibre than 11 in." In See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French, however, See also:

• CANON

canon is the See also:

• TERM

term applied to the See also:

• BARREL (a word of uncertain origin common to Romance languages; the Celtic forms, as in the Gaelic baraill, are derived from the English)

barrel of small arms, and also, as an alternative to mitrailleuse or mitrailleur, to machine guns, as well as to ordnance properly so-called . The Hotchkiss machine gun used in several navies is officially called " revolving See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon." For details see See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

ARTILLERY, ORDNANCE, MACHINE GUNS, &c . Amongst the many derived senses of the word may be mentioned " cannon curls," in which the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair is arranged in See also:

• HORIZONTAL

horizontal tubular curls one above the other . For "cannon" in See also:

• BILLIARDS

billiards see BILLIARDS . In the 16th and 17th centuries the " cannon " in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England was distinctively a large piece, smaller natures of ordnance being called by various See also:

• SPECIAL

special names such as culverin, saker, See also:

• FALCON
• FALCON (Lat. Falco;' Fr. Faucon; Teutonic, Falk or Valken)

falcon, demi-cannon, &c . We hear of See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell taking with him to See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland (1649) " two cannon of eight inches, two cannon of seven, two demi-cannon, two twenty-four pounders," &c . See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• TURNER, CHARLES (1773–1857)
• TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM (1775–1851)
• TURNER, NAT (1800-1831)
• TURNER, SHARON (1768-1847)
• TURNER, SIR JAMES (1615–1686)
• TURNER, WILLIAM (d. 1568)

Turner, a distinguished professional soldier See also:

• CON

con-temporary with Cromwell, says: " The cannon or battering ordnance is divided by the See also:

• ENGLISH

English into Cannon Royal, Whole Cannon and Demi-Cannon . The first is likewise called the See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

Double Cannon, she weighs 8000 See also:

• POUND
• POUND (2)—(a)

pound of See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal and shoots a See also:

• BULLET (Fr. boulet, diminutive of boule, ball)

bullet of 6o, 62 or 63 pound See also:

• WEIGHT

weight . The Whole Cannon weighs 7000 pound of metal and shoots a bullet of 38, 39 or 40 pound . ' The See also:

• ORIGINAL

original small arms, however, are often referred to as See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand cannon .

his wife, though all other circumstances pointed to his servant as the See also:

• CULPRIT

culprit .