A general name for all sorts of great guns which are used in war. Also, all that relates to the artillery and engineer service.
·noun Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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The Sailor's Word-Book
A sloop expressly fitted for transporting ordnance stores to ships, and from port to port. ...
That which is provided with spiral grooves in the interior of the bore, to give rotatory motion to t...
The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...
The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...