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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Cradle Cannon as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
A cradle cannon is a form of nurse shot which is typically used in English billiards. In the cradle cannon shot, two colored balls are positioned on one side of the mouth or the other but are not touching. When they are placed on the snooker table as such, they can be successively contacted for a resulting score in a manner that can be repeated over and over again without causing them to move. The official record is held by William Cook with 42,746 points scored.
I wish we were still allowed to use the cradle cannon trick in tournament play.
The term "cradle cannon" is considered to be a slang term related to billiard technique. The cradle cannon definition was entered on 8/8/2008 9:02:13 PM and was updated on 8/8/2008 9:02:13 PM. It is a cue sport term that is related to billiard technique. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor.the term Cradle Cannon has some origin and/or history information on file. Apparently, the cradle cannon billiard shot nurse was first used in 1907 by Walter Lovejoy. However, Tom Reece holds the scoring record for total number of points scored successively by using the cradle cannon shot. His record was set in 1907 over the course of a month, where he scored 499,135 points using the Cradle cannon without missing, before stopping. Immediately after this record was set, the Billiards Association banned the use of the cradle cannon. See also: nurse for more on the meaning of cradle cannon.
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