About The Word Ordnance
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Ordnance
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What's The Definition Of Ordnance?
[n] large but transportable armament
[n] military supplies Synonyms | Synonyms for Ordnance: artillery | gun | heavy weapon | munitions | ordnance stores Related Terms | Find terms related to Ordnance: armament | arms | artillery | A-weapons | battery | biological weapons | cannon | cannonry | coast artillery | conventional weapons | deadly weapons | field artillery | flak | heavy field artillery | instruments of destruction | missilery | munitions | musketry | nuclear weapons | side arms | siege artillery | siege engine | small arms | thermonuclear weapons | trench artillery | weaponry | weapons See Also | arbalest | arbalist | armament | battery | bricole | cannon | catapult | field artillery | field gun | four-pounder | gunstock | onager | stock | trebuchet | trebucket Ordnance In Webster's Dictionary \Ord"nance\, n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to
the bore or size of the cannon. See {Ordinance}.]
Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and
howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all
weapons and appliances used in war.
All the battlements their ordnance fire. --Shak.
Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus
Choate's] rifled ordnance. --E. Ererett.
{Ordnance survey}, the official survey of Great Britain and
Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
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