Contextualizebeta

chicken cannon

noun

Definitions

  1. A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and…

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

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chicken cannon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA