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Noun(1) military supplies,large but transportable armament,artillery(2) military supplies(3) large but transportable armament(4) artillery

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(1) Following transition to the line around the turn of the century, Reeves continued his brilliant career, tackling the complex problems of naval gunnery, torpedoes, and ordnance .(2) the gun was a brand new piece of ordnance(3) The term is, however, also correctly applied to heavy rifled ordnance of the howitzer class used for coastal defence by some nations, though few ever saw use in 1939-45.(4) From 1766 to 1770 he was master-general of the ordnance , vice-treasurer of Ireland 1781-9, and given a British peerage in 1786 as Baron Carleton.(5) Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance .(6) unexploded ordnance(7) Artillery generally offers greater responsiveness and persistence, while air-delivered ordnance is usually more accurate and lethal.(8) Some who worked on the cannons had bent backs from the constant lifting of guns and ordnance .(9) The vessel was essentially a truck designed to bring ordnance within firing range of targets.(10) By the time I released my ordnance , I was only five miles in trail.(11) the ordnance corps(12) Precision munitions, mostly fired from air-or sea-based platforms, accounted for 7 percent of all ordnance expended during Operation Desert Storm.(13) Elizabeth responded to Essex's behaviour by appointing Cecil as secretary of state, but her fury gradually abated and she appointed Essex master of the ordnance and even gave him command of a new expedition against Spain in 1597.(14) The first wave of troops crossed the bridge, and soon the air on the far side was thick with ordnance - artillery shells, mortars, bullets.(15) The total amounted to more than 180,000 pieces of ordnance .