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Definition of Ordnances
1. ordnance [n] - See also: ordnance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordnances
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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