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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