artillery
has definitions from the fields of military,arms
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[ noun ] (military,arms) large but transportable armament
Synonyms Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Then we pull_out under our mortar and artillery cover , but nobody pulls_out until I say so . Related terms armament cannon field_artillery four-pounder catapult battery stock |
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[ noun ] (military) an army unit that uses big guns
Synonyms Used in print (Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)Artillery and air strikes were called_in to kill them by the hundreds . |
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[ noun ] a means of persuading or arguing
Synonyms Examples "he used all his conversational weapons" Used in print (David Boroff, "Jewish Teen-Age Culture"...)First , the student trains on his hapless parents the heavy artillery of his newly acquired psychological and sociological insights . Related terms |
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