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ammunition

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ammunition \Am`mu*ni"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ammunitioned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ammunitioning .] To provide with ammunition. [1913 Webster] ||

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ammunition is the third extended play by American electronic music duo Krewella . It was released on May 20, 2016 by Columbia Records on streaming and digital download music services. Ammunition was preceded by the release of the single "Beggars", on April ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French soldiers' faulty separation of Middle French la munition into l'ammunition ; from Latin munitionem (nominative munitio ) "a fortifying" (see munition ), and at first meaning all military supplies in general. The mistake in the word perhaps ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES live ammunition ▪ Troops fired live ammunition to disperse the crowd. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE live ▪ Policemen who were stoned by the crowd used live ammunition to disperse it, killing at least one person. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. projectiles to be fired from a gun [syn: ammo ] any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint; "his admission provided ...

Usage examples of ammunition.

The aerogram also gave the positions of the lighters loaded with ammunition which he had deposited round the English shores in anticipation of its arrival.

So that Sergeant Asch will be relieved of his post and can take over the ammunition section.

After an early breakfast, the 505th lined up to draw ammunition and field rations, along with atabrine pills to prevent malaria, pills to purify water, and anti-fatigue pills.

Boats containing the heavy ammunition and a regiment of conscripts were battered upon the rocks, and hundreds of the invaders found an unquiet grave upon the Banc des Violets.

The marksmanship of the Soviet artillery was perfect, and it aimed not at squares, as the Germans had done, but at definite targets, batteries, concentrations of tanks and infantry already drawn up on the line of attack, at bridges, underground ammunition dumps, blindages and command posts.

James assisted them with clothes, arms, and ammunition, together with some officers, amongst whom was colonel Bucan, appointed to act as their chief commander.

The mule was probably bad-tempered because it was burdened with the big Hotchkiss machine gun and ammunition boxes too.

G-12 automatic rifle, the burst of the caseless ammunition sending all four figures dancing and toppling.

There were boxes of several kinds of ammunition, mostly full-metal jacket, with some caseless and even the makings for a cap-and-ball revolver.

There was a parcel, neatly wrapped and itemized, of ammunition, including both the rare caseless rounds and the antique .

He snapped the clip out of the weapon and thumbed the square rounds of caseless ammunition out.

A late-model Tolgren, 5mm prefragmented bullets, caseless ammunition and a 30-round horizontal cassette magazine above the barrel.

Glocks were standard police issue, at least twenty years old, that IntenSecure bought by the truckload from PDs that could afford to upgrade to caseless ammunition.

So the offer of arms and ammunition was no idle one and it was the most unkind cut the dacoit leader could have delivered to the head of the Special Dacoity Police Force.

Marine reservist, sitting dejectedly atop a pile of ammunition crates next to a large olive drab painted van, was astonished at the clockwork precision of the SGRCP as they formed a double line of club-and shield-bearing skirmishers, in front, rifle-carrying men and women behind.