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n. Large-caliber weapons, such as cannon, howitzers, and missile launchers, that are operated by crews.

n. The branch of an army that specializes in the use of such weapons.

n. The science of the use of guns; gunnery.

n. Weapons, such as catapults, arbalests, and other early devices, used for discharging missiles.

n. Large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person.

n. A unit of the army, that uses such weapons.

n. Gunnery.

n. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.

n. Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

n. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

n. The science of artillery or gunnery.

n. Implements of war: in this sense formerly with a plural.

n. In particular Engines for discharging missiles, as catapults, bows, crossbows, slings, etc.

n. In modern use, properly, all firearms discharged from carriages, in contradistinction to small arms, which are discharged from the hand; cannon; ordnance.

n. Hence The particular troops employed in the service of such firearms.

n. The science which treats of the use and management of ordnance.

n. an army unit that uses big guns

n. large but transportable armament

n. a means of persuading or arguing

"Then there was an ugly confrontation between members of the battalion's Alpha and Charlie batteries -- the term artillery units use instead of "companies" -- that threatened to turn into a brawl involving three dozen soldiers, and required the base police to intervene."

park of artillery    train of artillery   

suasion    persuasion   

cannonry    train of artillery    flying artillery    mountain-artillery    sea-coast artillery   

cannon    ordnance    enginery    archery    broadside   

Hilary    Hillary    distillery    pillory   

cavalry    cannon    battalion    troop    ammunition