ordnancen.

Brit.

/ˈɔːdnəns/, U.S.

/ˈɔrdnəns/,

/ˈɔrdn̩əns/

Forms: Middle English ordinauns, Middle English ordonnaunce, Middle English ordynauns, Middle English–1500s ordinaunce, Middle English–1500s ordynaunce, Middle English–1600s ordenaunce, Middle English–1600s ordnaunce, Middle English– ordinance (now irregular), Middle English– ordnance, 1500s–1600s ordenance, 1500s–1600s ordynance, 1500s–1600s 1800s ordonance, 1600s ornance; Scottish pre-1700 ordenaunce, pre-1700 ordienance, pre-1700 ordinance, pre-1700 ordinans, pre-1700 ordince, pre-1700 ordnes, pre-1700 ordonnance, pre-1700 ordounance, pre-1700 ordynans, pre-1700 ordynaunce, pre-1700 1700s– ordnance.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ordinance n.

Etymology: Originally a variant of ordinance n., now distinguished in form in the senses below: see discussion at that entry.Compare post-classical Latin ordinantia ad bellum military equipment (1460 in a British source). Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. suggests as a slightly earlier first example Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 961, but this is elsewhere taken as showing the sense ‘governance’ (and hence ordinance n. rather than the present word).

Military.

1. Military materials, stores, or supplies; implements of war; missiles discharged in war (also in plural). In later use usually: ammunition; missiles or bombs (chiefly U.S.).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun]

gearc1275

armourc1300

armsc1325

armingc1330

ordnancea1393

armourer?c1400

artilleryc1405

habiliments1422

artry1447

armaturea1460

apparamenta1464

atour1480

munitionc1515

furnishments1559

furniture1569

equipage1579

ammunition?1588

magazine1588

victuals1653

war1667

armament1668

contraband1753

stuff1883

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2040 Þei..beholde myhte Here enemys..With al here ordinance there, Which thei ayein the Cite caste.

c1450 Siege Calais (Rome) in PMLA (1952) 67 891 They come the tovn aboute..With gonnes grete and ordinance.

?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 485 His ordinaunce and trussynge cofres were taken þer.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 82 By the first part is declared the..Receiptes of ordinaunces..By the secunde part is declared ordenaunces Retorned and deliuered.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lj Armoure, weapons, vitayle and all other ordinaunces expedient for warre.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 61 He brocht sa mony schipis to grece vitht al ordonnance.

1594 H. R. Newes Leuane Seas 17 Commaunding his Shippe to be prouided, his Nettings laced, and his Ordinance all out.

1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 143 For hast they left their Ordnance behind them.

1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 443 Ordnance and Stores sent by his Majesty's Order in Council, dated April 3, 1735.

1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Edward, Prince of Wales They first opened fire on the enemy with ordnance and a shower of arrows.

1918 W. H. Allen & C. Kleiser Stories Amer. in World War 176 Military Terms... Ordnance—powder, shells, guns, military equipment, arsenals, armories, munition factories.

1943 C. M. Beadnell Encycl. Dict. Sci. & War (at cited word) Ordnance. (1) Mil. supplies—art., ammunition, mines, torpedoes, rifles, mountings, spare parts, etc.

1976 D. K. Goodwin Lyndon Johnson & Amer. Dream 285 Success was measured simply..by counting which planes and which pilots delivered the most ordnance.

1990 Soldier of Fortune Sept. 60/3 There are tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO)—bombs, rockets, grenades and ammunition—lying about, either live or duds.

2. Artillery for discharging missiles.

a. Formerly: †catapults, slings, bows, etc.; = artillery n. 2a (obsolete). In later use: mounted guns, cannons, and other heavy firearms; = artillery n. 2b. Frequently in piece of ordnance (cf. piece n. 15a).Formerly often distinguished as great or small ordnance; now usually as heavy or light ordnance.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun] > collectively

ordnancea1450

artilleryc1450

enginery1641

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > collectively

ordnancea1450

artillery1509

cannonry1591

enginery1667

arty1815

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 7812 (MED) He purveid for maygnelles and belfrayes And othre ordinaunce at al assayes.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 99 Wheles for grete ordinaunce..iiij pair.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xx. 15 All the people..layed to their ordynaunce, and wolde haue cast downe the wall.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cv Thei laied gonne against gonne,..and laied a pece of ordynaunce directly against the wyndowe.

1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine ii. xiii. sig. I4 As fire giuen to the ordinance, tis to late to recall the shot.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xxxiii. 532 They approched with all their fabrickes, engines, and ordinance of batterie against the walls.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 28 Small Ordnance, as Falcones and Bases.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 553 The King and the Duke came to the Tower..to see some invention about the ordinance.

1792 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1849) App. 1126 He moved out with the Federal troops..together with Captain Ferguson's company of artillery, and three pieces of ordnance.

1851 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/2 We were flanked on each shore by a crowd of desperadoes well provided with small arms, and with two or three pieces of light ordnance among them.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 267 Rifled ordnance was used freely by the French in the campaign in Italy in 1859.

a1924 J. Conrad Suspense (1925) i. i. 1 An enormous piece of ordnance that with three of its monstrous fellows squatted on the platform of the tower.

1999 F.D.C.H. Polit. Transcripts (U.S.) (Nexis) 22 Sept. They argue forcefully for continued bombing and the use of light ordnance and light fire on the island.

†b. Usually in plural. A piece of ordnance for discharging missiles; a large gun. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun]

ordnancec1450

shotter1584

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun]

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cannona1460

piece1512

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tube1763

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c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1908) 434 (MED) And so he depertid and toke his leue oute of London with all his pepull and ordynauncis.

1480–1 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 315 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 No marchaunt..shall bryng none of the saide ordenaunces oute of no countre beyonde the see.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clx The Romaynes shot great ordinaunces, handgonnes, quarrels.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 24 Gunners spunge your Ordinances.

1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime 35 They replying so stoutly, made our Marriners quickly..fly to their Ordnances vnderneath.

†c. The artillery as a branch of the army. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > artillery

artillery1598

ordnance1665

RA1815

the heavies1908

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 293 Here was kill'd..Charles Levinus Famarsh, who..at this time was General of the Ordnance.

1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III vi. 442 Mansveldt marched into Bohemia, where he was..honoured with the charge of general of the ordnance.

3. The government organization, or branch of public or military service, concerned with the supply of military stores, materials, and equipment, and the management of the artillery, etc.Frequently with capital initial, esp. in the titles of bodies responsible for ordnance, or officers belonging to these.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office > department, board, etc.

ordnance1485

military chest1745

War Cabinet1916

W.O.S.B.1945

War Ag1949

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility > English or British

admiralty1459

ordnance1485

Navy Office1660

navy board1681

patent office1696

excise-office1698

Treasury Office1706

Plantation Office1708

stamp office1710

War Office1721

India Office1787

home office1795

Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues1803

the Stamps1820

Welsh Office1852

W.O.1860

Local Government Board1871

pall-mall1880

Scottish Office1883

Ministry of Munitions1915

War House1925

Min of Ag1946

Mintech1967

DOE1972

Manpower Services Commission1973

1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 354/2 Maister of oure Ordinaunce and maister of oure Armery.

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. Ej^v Syr Fraunces Flemynge knight, master of the ordinaunce.

1679 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 449 He was lieftenant of the ordinance.

1698 J. Crowne Caligula (front matter) To the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Rumney, Master-General of the Ordnance, Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports [etc.].

1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 117 Military Branch of the Ordnance... Gentleman of Ordnance, John Palmer.

1762 J. Robinson Let. 7 July in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 42 I consulted the gentlemen about the stores required by the Ordnance for the Artillery sent.

1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 201 This gentleman thereforr is desirous of presenting a memorial to the Board of ordnance at Geneva.

1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 22 I should have thought..that the Duke would have gone to the Ordnance, which he would have liked.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 710 The Master-General of the Ordnance directed..all those matters with reference to the Corps of Artillery and Engineers, which, as to the rest of the army, belonged to the Commander-in-Chief.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 572 The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance is [1870–87] charged with ‘providing, holding, and issuing, to all branches of the army and reserve forces, food, forage..and all other stores necessary for the efficient performance of their duties,’ etc.

1903 N.E.D. at Ordnance sb. Board of Ordnance, a board, partly military and partly civil, which had the management of all affairs relating to the artillery, engineers, and the matériel of the Army; it was under the direction of a Master-General, assisted by a Lieutenant-General, a Surveyor-General, a Principal Storekeeper, Clerks of the Ordnance, and various other officers. After having existed from the reign of Henry VIII, it was dissolved in 1855.

1931 Economica 32 198 Nothing was charged for this by the Board of Ordnance.

1962 J. Berryman Stephen Crane 219 He was chief of the Bureau of Ordnance at the time of the disaster on the Princeton, February 28, 1844.

1995 Independent 17 Oct. 2/7 Thirty-five pages of documents..apparently map out five shipments from Royal Ordnance.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as ordnance carriage, ordnance department, ordnance hospital, ordnance officer, ordnance park, ordnance stores, ordnance store-keeper, etc.

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1728 Stamford Mercury 22 Feb. 62 That 80 261 L. 9s. 3d. be granted to his Majesty for the extraordinary Expence of Ordnance Stores sent to Gibraltar and Port-Mahone, and for additional Arms delivered to the Forces in the Year 1727.

1732 L. Armstrong Let. 15 Nov. in Cal. State Papers Amer. & W. Indies (1939) 251 In case of a rupture, the four Companys at Canso..will be in great danger, having no..place of defence, or any where to lodge ammunition or ordnance stores.

1795 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 77 Ordnance stores for the siege, and cannoniers.

1803 Duke of Wellington Let. to Col. Murray 30 Apr. in Dispatches (1837) I. 529 Wheels for ordnance carriages.

1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland (New ed.) 210 The most efficient measure..was to fund..the floating debts, of the victualling, and of the ordnance departments.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxxxviii. 421 In front of an old ordinance marquee.

1844 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 7 118 In a straight line to the south-western corner of the Ordnance Storekeeper's house.

1847 J. C. Frémont Let. 23 Jan. in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1973) II. 279 I hereby direct you to settle with W. H. Russell who discharged the duties of Ordnance Officer.

1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 143 After a time these coil guns..find their way to the ordnance hospital at Woolwich.

1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 146 The whole of his ordnance park, containing a large quantity of ammunition and thirty-two guns.

a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) i. 12 A tall Ordnance Officer..directed me to the same fifteen-hundredweight truck which had been the Orderly Room in the Training Area.

1960 H. C. Thomson & L. A. Mayo Ordnance Dept.: Procurem. & Supply xiv. 329 One of the first steps taken..was to enlist the services of George D. Edwards..as consultant to the Ordnance Department.

1993 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 57 455 Only one such vessel was lost during the war, and she most likely was not engaged in the shipment of British naval ordnance stores at the time.

C2.

Ordnance Board n. an organization responsible for the supply of military stores and equipment, a Board of Ordnance (see sense 3).

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1711 J. Swift Short Char. T.E. of W. 19 He..put it out of the care of the Ordnance Board.

1805 Ann. Reg. (Otridge's ed.) 400 The ordnance board have signified..that the warren at that place [sc. Woolwich] is to be from this time denominated the ‘Royal Arsenal’.

1866 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 29 385 The old Ordnance Board, so mistakenly abolished, did propose the distinction being made between the cost of stores for the two services.

1996 Statist. Sci. 11 164/2 In due course my report was approved, and sent to the Ordnance Board!

ordnance datum n. the datum line to which all heights are referred in the Ordnance Survey, corresponding to mean sea level at a specified point (since 1921, Newlyn, Cornwall).

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > datum for heights

ordnance datum1869

1869 J. P. Kirkwood Rep. Filtration River Waters xvi. 106 The height of the full water of the reservoir is 692 feet above ordnance datum (which assumed base is the level of low water of a 12-foot tide in Dublin harbor).

1889 G. W. Usill Pract. Surveying ix. 177 The ordnance datum of this country was determined by the ordnance authorities to be ‘the approximate mean water at Liverpool’.

1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xvi. 191 The present Ordnance Datum is mean sea-level at Newlyn, Cornwall, that is, all heights are referred to the mean between high and low water observed at Newlyn for a number of years.

2001 Oxoniensia 65 333 The site slopes gently from W. to E. and lies at a height of 63 m. above Ordnance Datum.

ordnance map n. a map produced by the Ordnance Survey.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map

mappa mundia1387

mappemondea1393

table1610

Mercator's chart1645

Peutingerian tablea1657

Mercator1694

hemisphere1706

Peutinger1731

road map1741

geological map1798

route map1816

ordnance map1828

outline map1836

contour map1862

index map1869

hypsographical map1881

soil map1898

wheel-map1899

strip map1903

distribution map1947

worm's-eye map1964

topo1970

1828 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 118 154 Mr. Gardner (then one of the assistants on the trigonometrical survey, and now agent for the sale of the Ordnance maps).

1835 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 7 49 A map is now constructing, being a precise reduction of the Ordnance Maps, extending over the greater part of ten counties.

1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 127 The large scale Ordnance map..is usually informative about water features like old fish ponds and mill dams which may survive.

1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) ii. 13 There was a cellophane-wrapped ordnance map of the city above Ryan's desk.

ordnance sheet n. = ordnance map n.

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1844 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 134 26 Ordinance Sheet Maps, Nos. 88 and 89.

1867 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 124 Ordinance Sheets, 94 in number.

1982 Eng. Hist. Rev. 97 878 Many of the place-names mentioned are not marked on the one-inch Ordinance sheets.

Ordnance Survey n. British (originally) the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland carried out from 1791 under the direction of the Master-General of the Ordnance; (now) an official organization which produces large-scale, detailed topographical maps of the United Kingdom (also figurative).

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > specific survey

Ordnance Survey1807

1807 A. Arrowsmith Mem. Construction Map Scotl. 4 I was engaged in constructing a large Map of England on scale of one inch to three miles (following up the progress of the Ordnance Survey, not yet quite accomplished).

1820 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 110 335 The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Part 1 to 7, comprising Essex, Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Sussex, Surry, [sic] and Wiltshire.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 11 Maps of the Ordnance Survey are constructed on the scale of one inch to the mile.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! 11 This book makes no attempt to be an ordnance survey of modern music.

1993 Guardian 19 Nov. i. 18/6 The creation of executive agencies ranging from the Central Statistical Office to the Ordnance Survey are part of the same disintegrationist tendency.

Ordnance Survey map n. British a map produced by the Ordnance Survey, an ordnance map.

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1861 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 107 Among the accessions to the Library and Map Rooms since the former meeting were—..Landsberg's Map of Queensland, Australia; Continuation of Ordnance Survey Maps, &c.

1973 Times 13 Aug. 4/1 Mounting pressure from country walkers..may save the popular 2½ in. Ordnance Survey map.

2002 Focus May 86/2 The firm's Millennium Map is the first ever complete aerial survey that covers the whole of the UK... The photos are ‘geo-corrected’ for precise matching to the latest Ordnance Survey maps.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ordnance
释义	ordnancen. Brit. /ˈɔːdnəns/, U.S. /ˈɔrdnəns/, /ˈɔrdn̩əns/ Forms: Middle English ordinauns, Middle English ordonnaunce, Middle English ordynauns, Middle English–1500s ordinaunce, Middle English–1500s ordynaunce, Middle English–1600s ordenaunce, Middle English–1600s ordnaunce, Middle English– ordinance (now irregular), Middle English– ordnance, 1500s–1600s ordenance, 1500s–1600s ordynance, 1500s–1600s 1800s ordonance, 1600s ornance; Scottish pre-1700 ordenaunce, pre-1700 ordienance, pre-1700 ordinance, pre-1700 ordinans, pre-1700 ordince, pre-1700 ordnes, pre-1700 ordonnance, pre-1700 ordounance, pre-1700 ordynans, pre-1700 ordynaunce, pre-1700 1700s– ordnance. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ordinance n. Etymology: Originally a variant of ordinance n., now distinguished in form in the senses below: see discussion at that entry.Compare post-classical Latin ordinantia ad bellum military equipment (1460 in a British source). Middle Eng. Dict. s.v. suggests as a slightly earlier first example Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 961, but this is elsewhere taken as showing the sense ‘governance’ (and hence ordinance n. rather than the present word). Military. 1. Military materials, stores, or supplies; implements of war; missiles discharged in war (also in plural). In later use usually: ammunition; missiles or bombs (chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] gearc1275 armourc1300 armsc1325 armingc1330 ordnancea1393 armourer?c1400 artilleryc1405 habiliments1422 artry1447 armaturea1460 apparamenta1464 atour1480 munitionc1515 furnishments1559 furniture1569 equipage1579 ammunition?1588 magazine1588 victuals1653 war1667 armament1668 contraband1753 stuff1883 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 2040 Þei..beholde myhte Here enemys..With al here ordinance there, Which thei ayein the Cite caste. c1450 Siege Calais (Rome) in PMLA (1952) 67 891 They come the tovn aboute..With gonnes grete and ordinance. ?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 485 His ordinaunce and trussynge cofres were taken þer. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 82 By the first part is declared the..Receiptes of ordinaunces..By the secunde part is declared ordenaunces Retorned and deliuered. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lj Armoure, weapons, vitayle and all other ordinaunces expedient for warre. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 61 He brocht sa mony schipis to grece vitht al ordonnance. 1594 H. R. Newes Leuane Seas 17 Commaunding his Shippe to be prouided, his Nettings laced, and his Ordinance all out. 1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 143 For hast they left their Ordnance behind them. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 443 Ordnance and Stores sent by his Majesty's Order in Council, dated April 3, 1735. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Edward, Prince of Wales They first opened fire on the enemy with ordnance and a shower of arrows. 1918 W. H. Allen & C. Kleiser Stories Amer. in World War 176 Military Terms... Ordnance—powder, shells, guns, military equipment, arsenals, armories, munition factories. 1943 C. M. Beadnell Encycl. Dict. Sci. & War (at cited word) Ordnance. (1) Mil. supplies—art., ammunition, mines, torpedoes, rifles, mountings, spare parts, etc. 1976 D. K. Goodwin Lyndon Johnson & Amer. Dream 285 Success was measured simply..by counting which planes and which pilots delivered the most ordnance. 1990 Soldier of Fortune Sept. 60/3 There are tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO)—bombs, rockets, grenades and ammunition—lying about, either live or duds. 2. Artillery for discharging missiles. a. Formerly: †catapults, slings, bows, etc.; = artillery n. 2a (obsolete). In later use: mounted guns, cannons, and other heavy firearms; = artillery n. 2b. Frequently in piece of ordnance (cf. piece n. 15a).Formerly often distinguished as great or small ordnance; now usually as heavy or light ordnance. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun] > collectively ordnancea1450 artilleryc1450 enginery1641 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > collectively ordnancea1450 artillery1509 cannonry1591 enginery1667 arty1815 a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 7812 (MED) He purveid for maygnelles and belfrayes And othre ordinaunce at al assayes. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 99 Wheles for grete ordinaunce..iiij pair. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. xx. 15 All the people..layed to their ordynaunce, and wolde haue cast downe the wall. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cv Thei laied gonne against gonne,..and laied a pece of ordynaunce directly against the wyndowe. 1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine ii. xiii. sig. I4 As fire giuen to the ordinance, tis to late to recall the shot. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xxxiii. 532 They approched with all their fabrickes, engines, and ordinance of batterie against the walls. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures ix. 28 Small Ordnance, as Falcones and Bases. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 553 The King and the Duke came to the Tower..to see some invention about the ordinance. 1792 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1849) App. 1126 He moved out with the Federal troops..together with Captain Ferguson's company of artillery, and three pieces of ordnance. 1851 Harper's Mag. Dec. 80/2 We were flanked on each shore by a crowd of desperadoes well provided with small arms, and with two or three pieces of light ordnance among them. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 267 Rifled ordnance was used freely by the French in the campaign in Italy in 1859. a1924 J. Conrad Suspense (1925) i. i. 1 An enormous piece of ordnance that with three of its monstrous fellows squatted on the platform of the tower. 1999 F.D.C.H. Polit. Transcripts (U.S.) (Nexis) 22 Sept. They argue forcefully for continued bombing and the use of light ordnance and light fire on the island. †b. Usually in plural. A piece of ordnance for discharging missiles; a large gun. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > [noun] ordnancec1450 shotter1584 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] gun1339 enginec1380 great gunc1430 ordnancec1450 cannona1460 piece1512 spitfire1611 tube1763 barker1815 by and by1857 big gun1886 centre-fire1889 c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1908) 434 (MED) And so he depertid and toke his leue oute of London with all his pepull and ordynauncis. 1480–1 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 315 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 No marchaunt..shall bryng none of the saide ordenaunces oute of no countre beyonde the see. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clx The Romaynes shot great ordinaunces, handgonnes, quarrels. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 24 Gunners spunge your Ordinances. 1629 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime 35 They replying so stoutly, made our Marriners quickly..fly to their Ordnances vnderneath. †c. The artillery as a branch of the army. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > artillery artillery1598 ordnance1665 RA1815 the heavies1908 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 293 Here was kill'd..Charles Levinus Famarsh, who..at this time was General of the Ordnance. 1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III vi. 442 Mansveldt marched into Bohemia, where he was..honoured with the charge of general of the ordnance. 3. The government organization, or branch of public or military service, concerned with the supply of military stores, materials, and equipment, and the management of the artillery, etc.Frequently with capital initial, esp. in the titles of bodies responsible for ordnance, or officers belonging to these. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office > department, board, etc. ordnance1485 military chest1745 War Cabinet1916 W.O.S.B.1945 War Ag1949 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility > English or British admiralty1459 ordnance1485 Navy Office1660 navy board1681 patent office1696 excise-office1698 Treasury Office1706 Plantation Office1708 stamp office1710 War Office1721 India Office1787 home office1795 Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues1803 the Stamps1820 Welsh Office1852 W.O.1860 Local Government Board1871 pall-mall1880 Scottish Office1883 Ministry of Munitions1915 War House1925 Min of Ag1946 Mintech1967 DOE1972 Manpower Services Commission1973 1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 354/2 Maister of oure Ordinaunce and maister of oure Armery. 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. Ej^v Syr Fraunces Flemynge knight, master of the ordinaunce. 1679 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 449 He was lieftenant of the ordinance. 1698 J. Crowne Caligula (front matter) To the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Rumney, Master-General of the Ordnance, Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports [etc.]. 1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 117 Military Branch of the Ordnance... Gentleman of Ordnance, John Palmer. 1762 J. Robinson Let. 7 July in Jenkinson Papers (1949) 42 I consulted the gentlemen about the stores required by the Ordnance for the Artillery sent. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 201 This gentleman thereforr is desirous of presenting a memorial to the Board of ordnance at Geneva. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 22 I should have thought..that the Duke would have gone to the Ordnance, which he would have liked. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 710 The Master-General of the Ordnance directed..all those matters with reference to the Corps of Artillery and Engineers, which, as to the rest of the army, belonged to the Commander-in-Chief. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 572 The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance is [1870–87] charged with ‘providing, holding, and issuing, to all branches of the army and reserve forces, food, forage..and all other stores necessary for the efficient performance of their duties,’ etc. 1903 N.E.D. at Ordnance sb. Board of Ordnance, a board, partly military and partly civil, which had the management of all affairs relating to the artillery, engineers, and the matériel of the Army; it was under the direction of a Master-General, assisted by a Lieutenant-General, a Surveyor-General, a Principal Storekeeper, Clerks of the Ordnance, and various other officers. After having existed from the reign of Henry VIII, it was dissolved in 1855. 1931 Economica 32 198 Nothing was charged for this by the Board of Ordnance. 1962 J. Berryman Stephen Crane 219 He was chief of the Bureau of Ordnance at the time of the disaster on the Princeton, February 28, 1844. 1995 Independent 17 Oct. 2/7 Thirty-five pages of documents..apparently map out five shipments from Royal Ordnance. Compounds C1. General attributive, as ordnance carriage, ordnance department, ordnance hospital, ordnance officer, ordnance park, ordnance stores, ordnance store-keeper, etc. ΚΠ 1728 Stamford Mercury 22 Feb. 62 That 80 261 L. 9s. 3d. be granted to his Majesty for the extraordinary Expence of Ordnance Stores sent to Gibraltar and Port-Mahone, and for additional Arms delivered to the Forces in the Year 1727. 1732 L. Armstrong Let. 15 Nov. in Cal. State Papers Amer. & W. Indies (1939) 251 In case of a rupture, the four Companys at Canso..will be in great danger, having no..place of defence, or any where to lodge ammunition or ordnance stores. 1795 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. Introd. 77 Ordnance stores for the siege, and cannoniers. 1803 Duke of Wellington Let. to Col. Murray 30 Apr. in Dispatches (1837) I. 529 Wheels for ordnance carriages. 1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland (New ed.) 210 The most efficient measure..was to fund..the floating debts, of the victualling, and of the ordnance departments. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxxxviii. 421 In front of an old ordinance marquee. 1844 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 7 118 In a straight line to the south-western corner of the Ordnance Storekeeper's house. 1847 J. C. Frémont Let. 23 Jan. in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1973) II. 279 I hereby direct you to settle with W. H. Russell who discharged the duties of Ordnance Officer. 1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 143 After a time these coil guns..find their way to the ordnance hospital at Woolwich. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 146 The whole of his ordnance park, containing a large quantity of ammunition and thirty-two guns. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) i. 12 A tall Ordnance Officer..directed me to the same fifteen-hundredweight truck which had been the Orderly Room in the Training Area. 1960 H. C. Thomson & L. A. Mayo Ordnance Dept.: Procurem. & Supply xiv. 329 One of the first steps taken..was to enlist the services of George D. Edwards..as consultant to the Ordnance Department. 1993 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 57 455 Only one such vessel was lost during the war, and she most likely was not engaged in the shipment of British naval ordnance stores at the time. C2. Ordnance Board n. an organization responsible for the supply of military stores and equipment, a Board of Ordnance (see sense 3). ΚΠ 1711 J. Swift Short Char. T.E. of W. 19 He..put it out of the care of the Ordnance Board. 1805 Ann. Reg. (Otridge's ed.) 400 The ordnance board have signified..that the warren at that place [sc. Woolwich] is to be from this time denominated the ‘Royal Arsenal’. 1866 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 29 385 The old Ordnance Board, so mistakenly abolished, did propose the distinction being made between the cost of stores for the two services. 1996 Statist. Sci. 11 164/2 In due course my report was approved, and sent to the Ordnance Board! ordnance datum n. the datum line to which all heights are referred in the Ordnance Survey, corresponding to mean sea level at a specified point (since 1921, Newlyn, Cornwall). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > datum for heights ordnance datum1869 1869 J. P. Kirkwood Rep. Filtration River Waters xvi. 106 The height of the full water of the reservoir is 692 feet above ordnance datum (which assumed base is the level of low water of a 12-foot tide in Dublin harbor). 1889 G. W. Usill Pract. Surveying ix. 177 The ordnance datum of this country was determined by the ordnance authorities to be ‘the approximate mean water at Liverpool’. 1952 G. H. Dury Map Interpr. xvi. 191 The present Ordnance Datum is mean sea-level at Newlyn, Cornwall, that is, all heights are referred to the mean between high and low water observed at Newlyn for a number of years. 2001 Oxoniensia 65 333 The site slopes gently from W. to E. and lies at a height of 63 m. above Ordnance Datum. ordnance map n. a map produced by the Ordnance Survey. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > other types of map mappa mundia1387 mappemondea1393 table1610 Mercator's chart1645 Peutingerian tablea1657 Mercator1694 hemisphere1706 Peutinger1731 road map1741 geological map1798 route map1816 ordnance map1828 outline map1836 contour map1862 index map1869 hypsographical map1881 soil map1898 wheel-map1899 strip map1903 distribution map1947 worm's-eye map1964 topo1970 1828 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 118 154 Mr. Gardner (then one of the assistants on the trigonometrical survey, and now agent for the sale of the Ordnance maps). 1835 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 7 49 A map is now constructing, being a precise reduction of the Ordnance Maps, extending over the greater part of ten counties. 1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 127 The large scale Ordnance map..is usually informative about water features like old fish ponds and mill dams which may survive. 1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) ii. 13 There was a cellophane-wrapped ordnance map of the city above Ryan's desk. ordnance sheet n. = ordnance map n. ΚΠ 1844 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 134 26 Ordinance Sheet Maps, Nos. 88 and 89. 1867 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 11 124 Ordinance Sheets, 94 in number. 1982 Eng. Hist. Rev. 97 878 Many of the place-names mentioned are not marked on the one-inch Ordinance sheets. Ordnance Survey n. British (originally) the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland carried out from 1791 under the direction of the Master-General of the Ordnance; (now) an official organization which produces large-scale, detailed topographical maps of the United Kingdom (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > specific survey Ordnance Survey1807 1807 A. Arrowsmith Mem. Construction Map Scotl. 4 I was engaged in constructing a large Map of England on scale of one inch to three miles (following up the progress of the Ordnance Survey, not yet quite accomplished). 1820 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 110 335 The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Part 1 to 7, comprising Essex, Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Sussex, Surry, [sic] and Wiltshire. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 11 Maps of the Ordnance Survey are constructed on the scale of one inch to the mile. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! 11 This book makes no attempt to be an ordnance survey of modern music. 1993 Guardian 19 Nov. i. 18/6 The creation of executive agencies ranging from the Central Statistical Office to the Ordnance Survey are part of the same disintegrationist tendency. Ordnance Survey map n. British a map produced by the Ordnance Survey, an ordnance map. ΚΠ 1861 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 107 Among the accessions to the Library and Map Rooms since the former meeting were—..Landsberg's Map of Queensland, Australia; Continuation of Ordnance Survey Maps, &c. 1973 Times 13 Aug. 4/1 Mounting pressure from country walkers..may save the popular 2½ in. Ordnance Survey map. 2002 Focus May 86/2 The firm's Millennium Map is the first ever complete aerial survey that covers the whole of the UK... The photos are ‘geo-corrected’ for precise matching to the latest Ordnance Survey maps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † ordnancev. Forms: see ordnance n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ordnance n. Etymology: < ordnance n. Obsolete. transitive. To provide with ordnance or military equipment, esp. artillery. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)] > provide with firearms > with artillery ordnance1531 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. ii. sig. O A shippe of wonderfull beautie, well ordinanced and manned for his defence and saulfe conducte. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxviii This was a strong toune well walled, dyched and ordinaunced but not manned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1393v.1531
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