Definitions for artillery

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artillery ar·til·ler·y

Spelling: [ahr-til-uh-ree]

IPA: /ɑrˈtɪl ə ri/

Artillery is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in artillery (aeillrrty).

Definitions for artillery

noun

1. mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.
2. the troops or the branch of an army concerned with the use and service of such weapons.
3. the science that treats of the use of such weapons.

Origin of artillery

1350-1400; Middle English artil(le)rie, artelry, art(u)ry armaments, ballistic engines Anglo-French, Middle French artillerie, equivalent to Old French artill(ier) to equip, arm, alteration,

Examples for artillery

They did so, and secured each a lieutenancy in an artillery regiment.

In the centre of the island is an eminence, which was occupied by the garrison, and had some artillery.

Rain fell in torrents; the crashing thunder was like the roar of artillery.

artillery and mortar duels all around the outskirts of Donetsk rumble angrily every day.

Jackson fared better as an instructor of artillery, a subject he was far better at explaining.

artillery fire could be heard in Avtozavodsky district, on Chernyshevskogo and Putin avenues in downtown Grozny.

A grievous error it is to suppose that Cupid's artillery is limited to bow and arrows.

The “tactical” side of artillery—its use on a battlefield—was something Jackson was not called upon to explain.

The shells from the French artillery on the Roman Road are crashing into the wood.

The other subject he taught at VMI was something he knew a great deal about, too: artillery.