Ordnance n. Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war. "All the battlements their ordnance fire.""Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his (Rufus Choate's) rifled ordnance."
Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
... plan on the Ordnance Survey map, the walls enclose a quadrangular area roughly 640 feet long by 413 wide, the walls being 9 feet thick with a foundation 12 feet in width. The angles of the station are rounded. The eastern wall is strengthened by four solid bastions, one standing against ... — Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield Read full book for free!
... of the 36 County Inspectors is a Catholic. Of 170 District Inspectors only 10 are of that faith, and of 65 Resident Magistrates only 15 are Catholics. If we take the Valuation Offices, the Registration Offices, the Inspectorship of Factories, the Board of Works, the Woods and Forests, the Ordnance Survey, and any and every public department, Protestants hold three places out of four, though they are but one-quarter of the whole population. The extreme party, as we have seen, have secured no less than ... — Ireland and the Home Rule Movement • Michael F. J. McDonnell Read full book for free!
... the distinguished head of the Ordnance Survey Department, has shown that the length of one of the sides of the pyramid base, with the casing stones added, as measured by Colonel H. Vyse—viz. 9168 inches—is precisely 360 derahs, or land cubits of Egypt; ... — Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson Read full book for free!
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