noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ automatic
▪ water
▪
Riot police used water ~ to disperse the crowd.
VERB + CANNON
▪ load , mount
▪ aim
▪ fire , shoot
CANNON + VERB
▪ boom , roar , thunder
▪
Cannons thundered to their right.
▪ fire (sth) , shoot (sth)
▪
As the king stepped ashore the ~s fired a salute.
CANNON + NOUN
▪ ball (usually cannonball ) , shell
▪ blast , fire , shot
▪ crew
▪ fodder ( figurative )
▪
The foot soldiers were just used as ~ fodder (= considered not as people but as material to be used up in war) .