Associations to the word «Ordnance»

Wiktionary

ORDNANCE, noun. Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
ORDNANCE, noun. Artillery.
ORDNANCE SURVEY, proper noun. (British) Originally the branch of government that produced maps for the military, now a civilian organisation that produces maps worldwide.
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP, noun. Any of a large series of high quality, detailed maps of Great Britain produced in a variety of scales originally for military, but now for leisure or business use
ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS, noun. Plural of Ordnance Survey map

Dictionary definition

ORDNANCE, noun. Military supplies.
ORDNANCE, noun. Large but transportable armament.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope