The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artillery \Ar*til"ler*y\, n. [OE. artilrie, OF. artillerie, arteillerie, fr. LL. artillaria, artilleria, machines and apparatus of all kinds used in war, vans laden with arms of any kind which follow camps; F. artillerie great guns, ordnance; OF. artillier to work artifice, to fortify, to arm, prob. from L. ars, artis, skill in joining something, art. See Art.]
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Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.]
And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad.
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Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
Note: The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery.
The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
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The science of artillery or gunnery. --Campbell. Artillery park, or Park of artillery.
A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them.
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The place where the artillery is encamped or collected.
Artillery train, or Train of artillery, a number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching.
Wikipedia
The Artillery Park (also known as the Churchyard Cemetery) is an historic cemetery at North Road and Narragansett Avenue in Jamestown, Rhode Island. It is located at a high point on the southern part of Conanicut Island. It was originally laid out in 1656 as a burying ground and militia training ground, but appears to have only been used as a burying ground since the 1740s. When British forces occupied the island in 1776, there was a brief skirmish there, and the British afterward used the area as a military staging ground. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Image:ArtilleryPark-7660.jpg|Old section of the cemetery Image:ArtilleryPark-7651.jpg|Memorial to veterans of Jamestown, RI Image:ArtilleryPark-7665.jpg|American Legion insignia on gate of cemetery
Artillery Park is a ballpark in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Notable tenants include the Wilkes University Colonels and the Wilkes-Barre Barons. It was the location of Babe Ruth's longest home run. It used to be the home of the Wilkes-Barre Barons of the New YorkâPenn League and later the Eastern League.
Usage examples of "artillery park".
To the right there was an artillery park, dozens of guns and caissons and horses.
And because they are, you have to know that the Guard maintains an artillery park only ten blocks in that direction.
As he watched, a beam of silver stabbed downward into the valley and there was a secondary explosion from the direction of the artillery park.
Galloway was already assembling another small charge to place in the next wagon while more of his men were heading toward the artillery park, which was guarded by a handful of unsuspecting gunners armed with carbines.
Then he would slip into the water and make his way close enough to the compound to photograph the artillery park and motor pool.
I will tell him of your commendable initiative in getting the film of the Japanese artillery park.
The artillery park stood at the eastern end of the camp, thirty guns standing nose-to-tail with the harness laid out ready for the teams.
Seven brigades pitched their tents and built huts between the steep acclivities of the hills, while Henry Knox established his artillery park near Pluckemin, a few miles away.
The artillery park was placed at the forest's edge, well back from the guns, and the infantry sourly noted how the gunners were provided with tents, for the artillery alone of all the army had kept their wagons close.
The Colonel spoke sourly, for they were trotting beside an artillery park that was crammed with heavy cannon.
One of them, an excited young lieutenant, was shouting at the Medical Officer of the mobile unit: there had been an artillery park in the clearing and he wanted to know where it had been moved.
Sepoys were at drill, groups of fellows in vests and overalls were boiling their billies on the section fires, the long tent-lines and ruined mosques drowsed in the heat, the bugles sounded in the distance, the reek of native cooking wafted down from the host of camp-followers, fifty thousand of them, camped beyond the artillery park, somewhere a colour sergeant was waking the echoes, and a red-haired ruffian with a black eye was tied to a gun-wheel for field punishment, exchanging genial abuse with his mates.
He was walking at the head of his ox train on the wooded stretch above the newly made artillery park.