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 →

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 →
• 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 →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.