Artillery

Quick meaning: Artillery is a noun meaning Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.

Meaning

Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.

More Meanings

1. An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
2. Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
3. (UK, Ireland, slang) One or more guns.
4. (archaic) Weapons, especially siege engines.

Example Sentences

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

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.

Word Forms

• artilleries

Synonyms for artillery

Depending on context, synonyms include ordnance, gun, weapon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gun, ordnance, weapon, cannon, shelling, caliber.

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