"chicken cannon" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chicken cannons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chicken cannon (plural chicken cannons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 November 22, “Military has long history of using animals”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, page A15",
          "text": "The Air Force has a device known as \"the chicken cannon.\" Recently killed chickens are fired, feathers and all, from a converted cannon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mark Bryant (AP), \"Boeing's surplus store is the 747 of garage sales,\" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 17 Feb",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts."
      ],
      "id": "en-chicken_cannon-en-noun-s-Vg6z~V",
      "links": [
        [
          "aircraft",
          "aircraft"
        ],
        [
          "discharge",
          "discharge"
        ],
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "carcass",
          "carcass"
        ],
        [
          "airframe",
          "airframe"
        ],
        [
          "engine",
          "engine"
        ],
        [
          "impact",
          "impact"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "birdstrike"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chicken gun"
        },
        {
          "word": "rooster booster"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chicken cannon"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chicken cannons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chicken cannon (plural chicken cannons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "birdstrike"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 November 22, “Military has long history of using animals”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, page A15",
          "text": "The Air Force has a device known as \"the chicken cannon.\" Recently killed chickens are fired, feathers and all, from a converted cannon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mark Bryant (AP), \"Boeing's surplus store is the 747 of garage sales,\" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 17 Feb",
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device used during aircraft testing to discharge bird carcasses into airframes and engines to determine resistance to such impacts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aircraft",
          "aircraft"
        ],
        [
          "discharge",
          "discharge"
        ],
        [
          "bird",
          "bird"
        ],
        [
          "carcass",
          "carcass"
        ],
        [
          "airframe",
          "airframe"
        ],
        [
          "engine",
          "engine"
        ],
        [
          "impact",
          "impact"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "chicken gun"
    },
    {
      "word": "rooster booster"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chicken cannon"
}