• (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds.
(from the article `naval ship`) The armament of an English man-of-war of the early 16th century consisted of four or five short-barreled cannon, or curtals, a similar number of ...
Dem'i·can'non noun (Mil. Antiq.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.