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Ordnance

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Main Entry: ordnance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: artillery

Synonyms:

arms, big guns, bombs, heavy stuff, missiles, munitions, weapons
Notes: ordinance means an authoritative rule or a statute enacted by a city government, while ordnance means military supplies or heavy artillery
Main Entry: armament(s)
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weapon(s)

Synonyms:

ammunition, arms, defense, gun, hardware, heat*, material, materiel, munitions, ordnance, protection, security, weaponry
Main Entry: arms
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weaponry

Synonyms:

accoutrements, armaments, artillery, equipment, firearms, guns, munitions, ordnance, panoply, weapons
Main Entry: arsenal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: storage of weapons

Synonyms:

armory, depository, depot, dump, factory, magazine, ordnance, plant, repository, stock, stockpile, store, storehouse, supply, warehouse
Main Entry: artillery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weaponry or military unit

Synonyms:

arms, battery, bazooka, big guns, cannon, cannonry, force, gunnery, heavy stuff, munitions, ordnance, rainmakers, stovepipe, weapons
Main Entry: cannon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: large gun

Synonyms:

Big Bertha, Long Tom, heavy artillery, howitzer, mortar, ordnance
Notes: a cannon is a large mounted artillery gun or a large artillery gun that is on wheels that fires heavy projectiles while a canon is an ecclesiastical law or code of laws established by a church council or a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
Main Entry: gun
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weapon that shoots

Synonyms:

9 mm., Saturday-night special, Uzi, blaster, cannon, difference*, equalizer, flintlock, forty-five, handgun, hardware, howitzer, magnum, mortar, musket, ordnance, peashooter, persuader, piece*, pistol, revolver, rifle, rod, shotgun, thirty-eight
Main Entry: armament
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weapon

Synonyms:

ammunition, arms, defense, gun, hardware, heat, material, munitions, ordnance, protection, security, weaponry
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Arms.
Category: 1. Conditional antagonism

Synonyms:

-nouns
arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor (defense); armory (store); apparatus belli., ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; "villanous saltpeter" [Hen. IV]; dumdum bullet., explosive; gunpowder, guncotton., dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite; pyroxyline., sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel., club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy., gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; tenpounder., small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arguebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun., bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling; battering ram (impulse); gunnery; ballistics (propulsion)., missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt., pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah.
-phrases
en flute; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam.
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