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单词 piece of ordnance
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piece of ordnance
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 > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > collectively
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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.
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piece of ordnance
7. A single item belonging to a group or class of similar objects. Frequently in piece of furniture, piece of ordnance, piece of plate, etc. Cf. a piece n. at Phrases 3.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component > single element of collective whole
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1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 472 Myn jnstrumentys..I praye yow..to trusse in a pedde and sende them me..and a byll ther-in how many pecys.
1523 Earl of Surrey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 216 Dyvers other good peces of ordynaunce for the feld.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 9504 Syluer and Sarrigold sadly þai grippet..Pesis of plates plentius mekyll.
1563 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 237 Ane brasin pece of artailyerie, ten irn pecis.
1603 M. Pring Voy. N. Virginia in S. Purchas Purchas his Pilgrimes (1906) XVIII. 328 Our Master..caused a piece of great Ordnance to bee shot off, to give terrour to the Indians.
1636 R. Fewster Will in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 341 Item I giue &c to my wiffe & my two daughters 4 peeces off pewter to each.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 75 Of the..Motion or Course of a Shot discharged out of any Piece of Ordnance.
1715 London Gaz. No. 5336/2 A Piece of Plate of the value of 100 Ducats.
1792 Gentleman's Mag. 12/2 A statue or a piece of plate require inscriptions very different from a monument.
1832 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War III. 319 A regiment..succeeded in taking two pieces of cannon.
1886 M. Linskill Haven under Hill I. xv. 201 It was a handsome piece of furniture.
1940 W. E. Crook Electr. in Aircraft vii. 93 The impulse starter..is a purely mechanical piece of apparatus.
1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again (1992) 115 He has always been very proud of this piece of equipment.
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