artillery
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
artillery /ɑːˈtɪləri/
▶noun (pl. artilleries) large-calibre guns used in warfare on land.
■ a branch of the armed forces trained to use artillery.
– derivatives
artillerist noun.
artillerist noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. artillerie, from artiller, alt. of atillier ‘equip, arm’, prob. a var. of atirier, from a- + tire ‘rank, order’.
'artillery' also found in these Oxford entries:
barrage
- battery
- bombardier
- bombshell
- bracket
- cannon
- captain general
- curtain fire
- drumfire
- elevate
- gun carriage
- gunner
- handspike
- lance bombardier
- pepperbox
- RA
- salvo
- shell
- stonk
- troop
- umbrella
