artillery

Definitions

1. Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery
2. Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
   countable, uncountable
3. Large-caliber weapons, such as cannon, howitzers, and missile launchers, that are operated by crews.
4. An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers
5. An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
   countable, uncountable
6. The branch of an army that specializes in the use of such weapons.
7. Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns)
8. Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
   countable, uncountable
9. The science of the use of guns; gunnery.
10. Weapons, especially siege engines
11. Weapons, especially siege engines.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
12. Weapons, such as catapults, arbalests, and other early devices, used for discharging missiles.
13. One or more guns
14. One or more guns.
    Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
15. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) guns, cannon, howitzers, mortars, etc, of calibre greater than 20 mm
16. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) troops or military units specializing in using such guns
17. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) the science dealing with the use of guns
18. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) devices for discharging heavy missiles, such as catapults or slings
19. mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.
20. the troops or the branch of an army concerned with the use and service of such weapons.

Equivalents

Examples

“And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie.”

And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city. (American Standard Version)

“The old walls […] were surely strong enough to keep⟳ out men without battering-rams, balistas, or artillery of any kind. [Footnote] Artillery is here used in its old English meaning for any kind of warlike engine. Cf. I Sam. XX. 40.”

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