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Ordnance

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.

Ordnance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ordnance?

[n] large but transportable armament
[n] military supplies

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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