ordnance
Etymology
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Etymology
A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of "military equipment or provisions".
Pronunciation- (British) enPR: ôrdʹnəns, IPA: /ˈɔːdnəns/, often /ˈɔːdɪnəns/
- (America) enPR: ôrdʹnəns, IPA: /ˈoɹdnəns/, very often /ˈoɹdɪnəns/
ordnance
- Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
- 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVI., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 438-40:
- 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.
- 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVI., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 438-40:
- Artillery.
- German: Militärmaterial, Kampfmittel
- Russian: боеприпас
- French: munitions
- Russian: артиллери́йские орудие
- German: Artillerie
- Russian: артилле́рия
- Spanish: artillería
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