'cannons' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of large gun or artillery, especially one mounted on a movable stand or carried by a warship, tank, or other vehicle. For example: "The soldiers used the cannons to fire warning shots over the enemy's heads."
Five years later, in August of 2000, cannons boomed, church bells rang and thousands watched from the harborside as the sub was raised and brought by barge to a conservation lab in North Charleston.
On 18 September, as the pair were blasted by water cannons, they successfully attached themselves to Gazprom's Prirazlomnaya platform in the Barents Sea.
China has clashed with Vietnamese and Filipino fishing ships in the region, sometimes boarding vessels or chasing them off with water cannons.
An incoming anti-ship missile detected even a dozen miles away can be safely shot down only by a robot, says Frank Biemans, head of sensing technologies for the Goalkeeper automatic ship-defence cannons made by Thales Nederland.Admittedly, that involves a machine destroying another machine.
The response came with water cannons and tear gas, in some cases canisters fired straight at people.
The police have used baton rounds (plastic bullets) and water cannons against the rioters, but they are treading carefully.
The hydraulics on those air cannons must be just so, as must the springs on the catapults.
There were various categories: air cannons, trebuchets, pedal-powered doohickeys.
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There is a din of heavy machinery, punctuated by blasts from cannons scaring birds away from toxic lakes.
By the time the traditional cannons signal that it is safe to eat, the streets are deserted and people are tucking into a lavish meal often in mock-Oriental tents.Despite the fast, grocery sales tend to go up during Ramadan, thanks to the evening feasts.
