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cannon

noun as in large gun

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The Grootslang rears back, but the crew finally gets the ship’s cannons to turn on.

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His deep bass laugh boomed, three shots of a cannon.

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He shot off the couch like he was being launched from a cannon.

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It had also been rebuilt twice, first in 1527 and again in 1536, when its weight was increased to seven hundred tons and its number of cannons and other weapons was dramatically increased.

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The Spaniard brought only 11 ships, some 450 men, 16 horses and a modest collection of cannons, crossbows and arquebuses, precursors to the musket.

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