artillery

UK /ɑːˈtɪləɹi/ US /ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

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

2

An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.

3

Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).

4

Weapons, especially siege engines.

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.

5

One or more guns.

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