artillery
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Definition of artillery
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
- (countable, uncountable)An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
- (countable, uncountable)Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
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(archaic, countable, uncountable)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.”
- (Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)One or more guns.
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Etymology
From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”).
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12 words6-letter words
25 words- AERILY 9 pts
- ARTERY 9 pts
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5-letter words
45 words- ALLEY 8 pts
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