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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
ar·til·ler·y       [ahr-til-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.
2.the troops or the branch of an army concerned with the use and service of such weapons.
3.the science that treats of the use of such weapons.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME artil(le)rie, artelry, art(u)ry armaments, ballistic engines < AF, MF artillerie, equiv. to OF artill(ier) to equip, arm, alter., by assoc. with art art1, of atill(i)er to set in order, put on armor (< VL *apticulāre, deriv. of L aptāre to put on (armor, ornaments, etc.; see adapt); -i- for expected -ei- perh. by assoc. with atirier; see attire) + -erie -ery]
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ar·til·ler·y       (är-tĭl'ə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. ar·til·ler·ies
  1. Large-caliber weapons, such as cannon, howitzers, and missile launchers, that are operated by crews.
  2. The branch of an army that specializes in the use of such weapons.
  3. The science of the use of guns; gunnery.
  4. Weapons, such as catapults, arbalests, and other early devices, used for discharging missiles.


[Middle English artillerie, from Old French, from artillier, to equip, perhaps alteration of atiller, from Vulgar Latin *apticulāre, from Latin aptāre, to fit, adapt, from aptus, apt; see apt.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
artillery 
c.1386, "warlike munitions," from O.Fr. artillerie, from artillier "to provide with engines of war," which probably is from M.L. articulum "art, skill," dim. of L. ars (gen. artis) "art." But some would connect it with L. articulum "joint," and still others with O.Fr. atillier "to equip," altered by infl. of arte. Sense of "engines for discharging missiles" (catapults, slings, bows, etc.) is from 1496; that of "ordnance, large guns" is from 1533.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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artillery

noun
1. large but transportable armament 
2. an army unit that uses big guns 
3. a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: weapon] 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.]

1. Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.]

And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. --1 Sam. xx. 40.

2. 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.

3. The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

4. The science of artillery or gunnery. --Campbell.

Artillery park, or Park of artillery. (a) A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them. (b) 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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Artillery

1 Sam. 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning "apparatus;" here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, "weapons"). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equipment of war.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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