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"Military supplies"2 answers
materiel8 lettersordnance8 letters
Filled answer is this word (ORDNANCE).
Definitions
large but transportable armament
Word origin
A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of “military equipment or provisions”. The sense of “artillery” arises in the early 15th century, the sense “military logistics” in the late 15th century. The shortened form ordnance arises by the 17th century, now often distinguished in writing from the other meanings of ordinance. Also doublet of ordonnance.
Used in a sentence
“When the Turkes tooke Conſtantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I haue heard both Bells and Ordnance, but neuer been ſo much affected with thoſe, as with theſe Bells.”
“Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,”
“From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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