Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chicken cannon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables: chick-en -can-non
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts.

Example Sentences

"The Air Force has a device known as "the chicken cannon." Recently killed chickens are fired, feathers and all, from a converted cannon."
"The most unusual thing sold is the "chicken cannon," a 10-foot-long pneumatic gun used at a test site to fire dead chickens at aircraft wings."

Inflected Forms

chicken cannons (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

birdstrike

Synonyms

chicken gun rooster booster

Questions

What does chicken cannon mean?: A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts.

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