ordnance
UK /ˈɔːdnəns/ US /ˈɔːdnəns/
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
When the Turkes took Constantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I have heard both Bells and Ordnance, but never been so much affected with those, as with these Bells.
2
Artillery.
From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
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