ordnance

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A general name for all sorts of great guns which are used in war. Also, all that relates to the artillery and engineer service.

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  • Ordnance

    ·noun Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes,...

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  • heavy ordnance

    See heavy metal ...

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  • ordnance-hoy

    A sloop expressly fitted for transporting ordnance stores to ships, and from port to port. ...

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  • rifled ordnance

    That which is provided with spiral grooves in the interior of the bore, to give rotatory motion to t...

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  • chamber of a piece of ordnance

    The end of the bore modified to receive the charge of powder. In mortars, howitzers, and shell-guns,...

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  • muzzle of a piece of ordnance

    The forward extremity of the cylinder, and the metal which surrounds it, extending back to the neck,...

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