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Definitions of ordnance

1.   Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.

2.   Implements of war, especially artillery.

3.   military supplies

4.   Heavy guns; artillery; military supplies.

5.   Heavy guns; artillery.

6.   A general term applied to all things connected with artillery; cannon; artillery.

7.   large but transportable armament

8.   ( orig.) Any arrangement, disposition, or equipment: great guns: artillery.

9.   Cannon, or great guns, mortars and howitzers; artillery. Ordnance survey, a survey of Britain at the instance of government.

Usage examples for ordnance

1. “ Chief, you go with them and secure everything, then take that stun gun back to ordnance ” – Unwise Child by Gordon Randall Garrett

2. “ Yet, even after all this, a body of the Scots appeared unbroken upon a hill, and were about to charge the Lord- Admiral, when they were compelled to leave their position by a discharge of the English ordnance ” – Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W.E. Aytoun

3. “ He wished to learn how a new piece of ordnance would act, so fired it off with no more intention of striking Russia than of hitting the moon. ” – A Rock in the Baltic by Robert Barr

4. “ There is no particularly plain pathway through the fields to the valley where this stone circle can be seen, but it can easily be found after a careful study of the large- scale Ordnance Map which they will show you at the hotel. ” – Yorkshire Painted And Described by Gordon Home

5. “ The money, merchandise, stores, jewels and ordnance fell to D'Aulnay with the fort. ” – The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

6. “ Soon after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor- General of the Ordnance ” – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

7. “ From Oar to Sail The use of heavy ordnance already mentioned, as well as the increasing size and efficiency of sail- craft that came with the spread of ocean commerce and navigation, naturally pointed the way to this transition in warfare from oar to sail. ” – A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

8. “ They have a great many pieces of brass ordnance which they fire lying on the ground, using no carriages. ” – A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. by Robert Kerr

9. “ It is one of the many scattered about this district, all carefully numbered by the Ordnance ” – The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

10. “ 5, 500 Chief of Ordnance ” – Studies in Civics by James T. McCleary

11. “ An unfortunate feature was that the Quartermaster the day before received from Ordnance the Battalion's winter clothing, and had issued it that morning. ” – The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by F.L. Morrison

12. “ When it does- well, Captain, I have taken the liberty to store some pieces of ordnance below- they appear as household furniture in the manifest of cargo. ” – Dan Merrithew by Lawrence Perry

13. “ All the expenses of the Army and Ordnance amount to an enormous sum- to sixteen or eighteen millions; but the pay of one hundred and fifty thousand men, at a shilling a day each, amounts to no more than two million seven hundred and twelve thousand five hundred pounds. ” – Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury

14. “ There has also been a great improvement in the swivel- gun, my boy, which has been so reconstructed as to remedy the evil of immediate bursting so common to our heavier ordnance ” – The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 by Robert H. Newell

15. “ After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day. ” – The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle

16. “ Some are skirt ornaments for artillery officers, both Regular Army and Militia, while some are cap ornaments for ordnance officers. ” – American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell

17. “ But the night following, the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the storm so increased, the ships were weighty, the ordnance great, and the billows so raised and enraged, that we could carry out no sail which to our judgment would not have been rent off the yards by the wind; and yet our ships rolled so vehemently, and so disjointed themselves, that we were driven either to force it again with our courses, or to sink. ” – Raleigh by Edmund Gosse

18. “ But the design was quickly abandoned; the clumsy ordnance was left on the field, and orders were given to the cavalry to charge; the trumpets sounded, and, crying their war- cries, the bold cavaliers struck their spurs into their steeds, and rode at full speed against the enemy. ” – History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas by Prescott, William Hickling

19. “ There Lord Hastings had just accepted the surrender of the vessel from a young ordnance officer, the sole German officer left alive with the exception of Captain Koenig, who was still unconscious in his cabin. ” – The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers by Ensign Robert L. Drake

20. “ Scarcely any ordnance worth the name. ” – Caribbee by Thomas Hoover