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1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 19^v Great store of Canon pouder commonly called Gunpouder.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F2 His new stampt complement, his Cannon oathes.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 71 Serpentine powder in old time was in meale, but now corned and made stronger, and called Canon corne powder.

a1640 W. Fenner XXIX Choice Serm. (1657) 409 Your Cannon Bore is warped, so your bullet goes beside the mark.

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions §64 So clear from danger, that..a Pound of Butter did not melt being laid upon the Cannon-britch.

1663 W. Davenant Siege of Rhodes: 2nd Pt. ii. 19 With smoke of Cannon-Clouds.

1742 B. Robins New Princ. Gunnery Pref. p. xxxv (note) We learn from Tartalea, that the cannon powder in his time..was made of four parts salt-petre, one part sulphur, and one part charcoal.

1822 London Mag. Dec. 537 The streaming lightning, and the tempest's dash, The Waving cutlass, and the cannon flash.

1852 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel xii. xix. in Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 576/2 So fair and so tranquil he might have looked through the cannon-reek at Ramilies and Blenheim, suggesting to Addison the image of an angel of war.

1865 H. James in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 258/1 A rolling canopy of cannon-smoke.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 12/1 Cannon-casting is the staple industry, and especially the manufacture of breech-loading guns.

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind iii. xix. 330 Cannon smoke..hung over the town like thunder clouds.

1937 Pop. Mech. June 4A Plane engine has cannon bore in prop shaft.

2012 M. Stephenson Last Full Meas. iii. 101 The gunner's art lay in setting the trajectory and trimming the fuse (which was ignited by the cannon flash).