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scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as a bore of a cannon, etc.

mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new from a shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.

To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reëcho the roar of cannon.

Something which reënforces or strengthens. Specifically: (a) That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder. See Illust. of Cannon. (b) An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc.…

Sound; noise; as, the report of a pistol or cannon.

eels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon.

To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n.

el; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.

The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean. Arm! arm! it is, it is the cannon's opening roar! Byron.

A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.

n a voyage under working days. Simmonds. -- Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon. -- Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework. -- Running hand, a style…

of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by dipping colors, by cheers, etc.

A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.

To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. Totten.

A kind of ancient cannon.

A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.

They are the largest of the British draft breeds, and have long hair on the back of the cannons and fetlocks. Brown or bay with white on the face and legs is now the commonest color.