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Another word for artillery

NOUN

  1. Heavy ordnance

    See also:

    munitions

    cannon

  2. The branch of the service that mans artillery, sense 1

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Sentence Examples

  • The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.

  • A battery of artillery was passing in front of the regiment.

  • He at once assembled his forces, 12,000 strong, with some pieces of artillery and marched into India.

  • Prince Andrew glanced again at the artillery officer's small figure.

  • When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out.

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