artillery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Weapons, especially siege engines.

   And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie.

2. 2
   noun

   large but transportable armament

3. 3
   noun

   a means of persuading or arguing

4. 4
   noun

   an army unit that uses big guns

From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”).

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