The word "cannon" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a large, heavy gun typically mounted on a base or other platform and used to fire projectiles at a target. For example, "The museum displays cannons from the Civil War era."
Police trucks with mounted water cannon watch over "freedom square", the name given to an open field in downtown Harare by MDC supporters who held what was described as the country's biggest ever election rally there.
We stay on one Prussian soldier as he fires towards a Danish cannon position.
A stash of bronze set aside for Da Vinci's sculpture was needed instead to cast cannon.
Calling for a thorough investigation, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told a special session of the UN human rights council in Geneva this month that his office had received reports of the militants putting children forward as "expendable cannon fodder" for its first line of attack.
In a truly chilling scene, the Prussian commander calmly announces to his generals the plan to bombard the Danish line with solid cannon fire for six hours and then send in 12,000 soldiers to finish the job.
There's a small amount of cannon fodder in terms of runaways, drug addicts, prostitutes and tramps that are used.
"I went on [Sky's]Soccer AM, they reckon I've got a tattoo of a cannon – I haven't.
"Cañonito [little cannon] Bale," runs the headline, drawing on the Hungarian's "Cañonito pum!" [little cannon, bang!] nickname.
But the result was a pitifully unequal struggle between demonstrators hurling stones and tens of thousands of Revolutionary Guards and voluntary militiamen, known as the baseej, armed with truncheons, water-cannon and automatic rifles.In this section Is the dream already over?
Police used water-cannon and tear-gas to disperse a crowd as Condoleezza Rice, America's secretary of state, visited.
To Petersburgers, nerves jangled by pot-holed roads and a barrage of cannon-fire, a smoother ride will be welcome.
