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/ˌæmjənˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Ammunition n.

Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. (Obs.)

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.

Ammunition bread, Ammunition shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. (Eng.)

verb

Ammunition v. t. (past & past part. ammunitioned; pres. part. ammunitioning) To provide with ammunition.

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"Ammunition" Quotes from Famous Books

... and by his report of arms and ammunition confirmed this statement, informing the Baron, in a melancholy voice, that though the people would certainly obey his honour's orders, yet there was no chance of their following the gear to ony guid purpose, in respect there were only his honour's body servants ...

— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... together, and Falk had been promised some reader's work in connection with one of the younger publishing houses. In after years he looked back in amazement that he should have ventured on the great London attack with so slender a supply of ammunition—but now, looking forward in Polchester, that question of future livelihood seemed the very smallest ...

— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole

... the defense of Ypres. There was a time in the first battle of Ypres when the British high command, denuded of shells, were allotting among their commands, then engaged in a life-and-death struggle, ammunition which had not yet left England. So terribly was the "first seven divisions" of glorious memory decimated in this first battle of Ypres, that at a critical time, the bakers, cobblers and grooms were ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

... were not to be tricked, and soon the fellows, having grown apprehensive, or having exhausted all their ammunition, were heard driving off. Signs of blood were found on the road towards Beaufort next morning, so the attacking force suffered some inconvenience in return for giving us ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... was at a standstill, and Renault was determined that if the enemies of his nation were destined to take the Company's property, they should have the utmost difficulty possible in doing so. He expended the money on provisions and ammunition. At the same time, that he might not lose any chance of settling affairs peaceably with the English, he refused to associate himself with the Nawab, and entered upon negotiations for a neutrality in the Ganges. To protect himself if these failed, ...

— Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 • S.C. Hill

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