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| Main Entry: | cannon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large gun |
| Synonyms: | ordnance, Big Bertha, Long Tom, heavy artillery, howitzer, mortar |
| Notes: | a cannon is a large mounted artillery gun or a large artillery gun that is on wheels that fires heavy projectiles while a canon is an ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council or a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter |
| Main Entry: | artillery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weaponry or military unit |
| Synonyms: | arms, battery, cannon, force, munitions, ordnance, bazooka, big guns, cannonry, gunnery, heavy stuff, rainmakers, stovepipe, weapons |
| Main Entry: | gun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon that shoots |
| Synonyms: | 9 mm., cannon, difference*, hardware*, musket, ordnance, piece*, pistol, rifle, rod*, Saturday-night special, Uzi, blaster, equalizer, flintlock, forty-five, handgun, howitzer, magnum, mortar, peashooter, persuader, revolver, shotgun, thirty-eight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | weapon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arm, armament |
| Synonyms: | ammunition, arrow, ax, bat, baton, bayonet, billy club, blade, bludgeon, bomb, boomerang, bowie knife, brass knuckles, cannon, catapult, cleaver, club, cudgel, dagger, dart, firearm, gun, hatchet, knife, lance, machete, machine gun, missile, musket, nerve gas, nuclear bomb, pistol, rifle, saber, spear, spike, sword, tear gas, anlace, arbalest, archery, assegai, atlatl, axe, backsword, ballista, banderilla, barong, battle-ax, bazooka, blackjack, blowgun, bow and arrow, crossbow, cutlass, dirk, flamethrower, harpoon, howitzer, hunting knife, nunchaku, revolver, scythe, shotgun, slingshot, stiletto, switchblade |
| Main Entry: | battery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group of weapons |
| Synonyms: | artillery, cannon, cannonry, gunnery unit, guns |
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