ordnances in English
noun
1
mounted guns; artillery.
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.
2
a branch of the armed forces dealing with the supply and storage of weapons, ammunition, and related equipment.
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.
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1. Synonyms for Artilleries include ordnances, batteries, cannons, cannonries, guns, big guns, gunneries, armaments, arms and bazookas