A shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other.
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Examples for "cannon "
Examples for "cannon "
1 Officers used water cannon , teargas and rubber bullets, a police spokesman said.
2 Path of cannon ball; weight of fish in water; hitting distant mark.
3 The day was closing; the thunders of the cannon were dying down.
4 Hardly Garibaldian warriors, rather cannon fodder in a new kind of war.
5 In 1543 was cast the first iron cannon made in this country.
1 He nearly fell in his effort not to carom into them.
2 Arvidsson scooped up the carom and wired a wrister past Andersen.
3 Patrick Sharp retrieved the carom and passed it to Faksa, who then scored.
4 Van Riemsdyk was in the slot to knock in the carom .
5 Max stopped in the act of trying for a carom , and stared at his sister.
6 Barkov collected the carom and lifted the puck over Brossoit's left pad for the goal.
7 Electrons and other particles didn't just neatly carom around like Newtonian billiard balls, for example.
8 We came near making a carom sometimes, but not the one we were trying to make.
9 You hit a pool ball, and it starts to carom off the sides of the table.
10 He put a carom off the end boards past Howard from the inside part of the right circle.
11 The carom does not count.
12 Jordan Eberle had a shot carom off the top post and then had a putback attempt deflected by Georgiev.
13 The ensuing carom fell to van Riemsdyk and he beat Niemi with a snap shot to the far post.
14 The play started when Stars defenseman John Klingberg couldn't control a carom along the boards near the Dallas blue line.
15 Stars defenseman Jason Demers attempted to clear the puck off the carom near the far post but whiffed on the play.
16 Thompson, however, was the first to the carom off the backboard, dropping the ball back into the hoop for the winner.
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