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ordnance survey
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Ordnance Survey ( OS ) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain and is one of the world 's largest producers of maps . Since 1 April 2015 it has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company , 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordnance \Ord"nance\, n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance .] Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, ...
Usage examples of ordnance survey.
But for that they'd need pinpoint accuracygrid references off an Ordnance Survey map simply wouldn't do itand we don't have our techs out here as yet.
After a while he reached for the ordnance survey map and began to unfold it.
She folded out the Ordnance Survey map and together they studied it.
He got out the ordnance survey map and went forward to study the terrain.
Every last bit of it, good and bad - Marmite, village fetes, country lanes, people saying 'mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but', people apologizing to me when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, stinging nettles, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, crumpets, hot-water bottles as a necessity, drizzly Sundays - every bit of it.
Carefully, he spread out the Ordnance Survey map and tried to study it through the eyes of a person who'd decided to run away.
I can show it to you on the Ordnance Survey, if you're interested.
I want to get hold of Ordnance Survey maps for south-east England.
Exposed to the mass gaze was none other than old TQ 17 NE, the Ordnance Survey map of the borough.
And if you take an Ordnance Survey Map for Oxfordshire, you find that the six-figure reference 313/271 lands you bang in the middle of Chipping Norton.
She took the ordnance survey map from its protective plastic cover and spread it flat on the bed's counterpane.