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Ordnance

Ordnance Meaning & Definition
Ordnance Definition And Meaning

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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