heavy artillery

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noun

guns and howitzers of large caliber.

guns and howitzers of 155-mm caliber and larger. Compare light artillery ( def 2 ), medium artillery.

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heavy artillery definition

n.
powerful or persuasive persons or things. (The same as big gun.) : Finally, the mayor brought out the heavy artillery and quieted things down.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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He may have been in a heavy artillery regiment or the navy.

All the heavy artillery of conservatism was there, and the participants were

speaking to their own.

Heavy artillery is becoming an increasingly important factor in deciding

battles.

The swampy terrain and enemy heavy artillery fire forced them to retire.

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"Far up in the country,—for we would be faithful to our experience,—in Thornton, perhaps, we met a soldier lad in the woods, going to muster in full regimentals, and holding the middle of the road; deep in the forest, with shouldered musket and military step, and thoughts of war and glory all to himself. It was a sore trial to the youth, tougher than many a battle, to get by us creditably and with soldier-like bearing. Poor man! He actually shivered like a reed in his thin military pants, and by the time we had got up with him, all the sternness that becomes the soldier had forsaken his face, and he skulked past as if he were driving his father's sheep under a sword-proof helmet. It was too much for him to carry any extra armor then, who could not easily dispose of his natural arms. And for his legs, they were like heavy artillery in boggy places; better to cut the traces and forsake them. His greaves chafed and wrestled one with another for want of other foes. But he did get by and get off with all his munitions, and lived to fight another day; and I do not record this as casting any suspicion on his honor and real bravery in the field."

-Henry David Thoreau