| 单词 | artillery yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartillery yard artillery yard n. an enclosed area for storing artillery and training artillerymen. ΚΠ 1591 Acts of Privy Council 74 The artillery yarde belonginge to the cittie beinge erected for the trayninge of yonge gentlemen in London. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. 31 Your complexion..Stuck full of blacke, and melancholique wormes, Like poulder cornes, shot, at th' Artillery-yard . View more context for this quotation 1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 11 The left side is occupied by the king's store-houses and an artillery-yard. 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. (1863) I. xii. 194 At West Point there is much of buildings, much of military arrangement in the way of cannons, forts, and artillery yards. 2003 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 27 Dec. 12 Soldiers drilled, and punishments were meted out in a large artillery yard bounded by crenellated walls. < as lemmas |
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