Both Uses of
canon
in
The Call of the Wild
- Three more huskies were added to the team inside an hour, making a total of nine, and before another quarter of an hour had passed they were in harness and swinging up the trail toward the Dyea Canon.†
Chpt 2 *
- It was a hard day's run, up the Canon, through Sheep Camp, past the Scales and the timber line, across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep, and over the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the salt water and the fresh and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(canon as in: a canonical requirement) an official or established rule or principle; or a collection of such rules or principles (often in reference to rules or principles of a church)editor's notes: Historically, a canon was a church law.