ORDNANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ordnance mean? 

• ORDNANCE (noun)
  The noun ORDNANCE has 2 senses:

1. military supplies

2. large but transportable armament

  Familiarity information: ORDNANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDNANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Military supplies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

munition; ordnance; ordnance store

Hypernyms ("ordnance" is a kind of...):

armament (weaponry used by military or naval force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large but transportable armament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

artillery; gun; heavy weapon; ordnance

Hypernyms ("ordnance" is a kind of...):

armament (weaponry used by military or naval force)

Meronyms (parts of "ordnance"):

gunstock; stock (the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ordnance"):

cannon (a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels)

field artillery; field gun (movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops))

four-pounder (an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds)

Holonyms ("ordnance" is a part of...):

battery (a collection of related things intended for use together)

 Context examples 

Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford for its centre.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had obtained a large ordnance map of the neighbourhood, and this he brought into my room, where he laid it out on the bed, and, having balanced the lamp in the middle of it, he began to smoke over it, and occasionally to point out objects of interest with the reeking amber of his pipe.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)