ckle is then hooked to the middle of the bight.

CANISTER SHOT. _See_ CASE-SHOT.

CANNIKIN. A small drinking-vessel.

CANNON. The well-known piece of artillery, mounted in battery on board
or on shore, and made either of brass or iron. The principal parts
are:--1st. The breech, together with the cascable and its button, called
by seamen the pommelion. The breech is of solid metal, from the bottom
of the concave cylinder or chamber to the cascable. 2d. The trunnions,
which project on each side, and serve to support the cannon, hold it
almost in equilibrio. 3d. The bore or caliber, is the interior of the
cylinder, wherein the powder and shot are lodged when the cannon is
loaded. The entrance of the bore is called the mouth or muzzle. It may
be generally described as gradually tapering, with the various
modifications of first and second reinforce and swell, to the muzzle or
forward end. (_See_ GUN.)

CANNONADE. The opening and continuance of the fire of artillery on any
object attacked. Battering with cannon-shot.

CANNON-PERER. An ancient piece of ordnance used in ships of war for
throwing stone shot.

CANNON-PETRONEL. A piece of ordnance with a 6-inch bore which carried a
24-lb. ball.

CANNON, RIFLED. Introduced by Captain Blakely, Sir W. Armstrong, and
others.

CANNON ROYAL. A 60-pounder of eight and a half inches bore. (_See_
CARTHOUN.)

CANNON-SERPENTINE. An old name for a gun of 7-inches bore.

CANOE. A peculiar boat used by several uncivilized nations, formed of
the trunk of a tree hollowed out, and sometimes of several pieces of
bark joined together, and again of hide. They are of various sizes,
according to the uses for which they are designed, or the countries to
which they belong. Some carry sail, but they are commonly rowed with
paddles, somewhat resembling a corn-shovel; and instead of rowing with
it horizontally, as with an oar, they manage it perpendicularly. In
Greenland and Hudson Bay, the Esquimaux limits of America, skin-boats
are chiefly in use, under the name of kaiack, oomiak, baidar, &c.

CANOPUS. The lucida of Argo Navis, and a Greenwich star. Also, a city of
classical importance, visited by the heroes of the Trojan war, the
reputed burial-place of the pilot of Menelaus, &c. But, as some ancient
places have been so fortunate as to renew their classical importance in
modern times, so this, under the modern name of Abukeir, has received a
new "stamp of fate," by its overlooking, like Sal