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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne