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artillery
noun
- Archaic apparatus, as catapults or arbalests, for hurling heavy missiles
- guns of large caliber, too heavy to carry; mounted guns (excluding machine guns), as cannon or missile launchers: artillery may be mobile, stationary, or mounted on ships, airplanes, etc.
- the science of guns; gunnery
Related Forms:
- artilleryman noun pl. artillerymen or artillerist
See artillery in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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