large but transportable armament

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

Heavy guns; artillery; military supplies.

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

Heavy guns; artillery.

Implements of war, especially artillery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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