Definition of Ordnances

1. Noun. (plural of ordnance) ¹

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Definition of Ordnances

1. ordnance [n] - See also: ordnance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordnances

ordinated
ordinately
ordinates
ordinating
ordination
ordinations
ordinative
ordinator
ordinators
ordinaunce
ordinee
ordinees
ordines
ordnance
ordnance stores
ordnances (current term)
ordo
ordoliberal
ordoliberalism
ordoliberals
ordonezite
ordonnance
ordonnances
ordonnant
ordos
ordovian
ordovician
ordre
ordrely
ordres

Literary usage of Ordnances

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1892)
"... ordnances and ammunition and all sorts of arms tit and tions. necessary for the security and defence of the same or any of them tn demolish or dismantle ..."

2. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1908)
"He held the same position in the Third Regiment of Artillery, and was appointed major of ordnances in. During the Mexican war he was chief of ordnances at ..."

3. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"And on the next day, being the sixth of May, the great army came forward with the haul ordnances, and assailed the town, which they found void of all ..."

4. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1907)
"Yet we could onely use but foure peece of ordnances, but they served the turne as well as all the rest: for she was shot so oft betweene wind and water, ..."

5. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"... or rebelliously detain, keep, or withhold from the king's said highness, his heirs or successors, any of his or their ships, ordnances, artillery, ..."

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