Category:Ordnance

Ord"nance, n. Etym: [from oe. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore Or size of the cannon. See ordinance.]

Defn: heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and Howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and Appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [rufus choate's] Rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the official survey of great britain and ireland, Conducted by the ordnance department.