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# artillery

«artillery» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **big guns; cannons** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

big guns; cannons

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

In older English, any weapons that throw or shoot, such as bows and arrows or catapults. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/artillery/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today it means big guns and cannons used in war. The sentences use the modern sense, so the word is used as today.

### examples

- I heard them coming, and I also at the same time was conscious of a rush of air and a sound like the roar of heavy artillery. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/artillery/#x1)
- At last I fell over the tail-end of a gun, and by that knew I was somewhere near the artillery lines where the cannon were stacked at night. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/artillery/#x2)

### primary record

artillery

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 2; ratio 0.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «artillery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/artillery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.