What is another word for artilleries?

Pronunciation: [ɑːtˈɪləɹiz] (IPA)

Artilleries are weapons that fire heavy projectiles such as cannonballs or shells over long distances. There are various synonyms for artilleries such as, arms, cannons, firearms, guns, weaponry, munitions, ordnance, and armament. These words generally refer to any weapons used for military purposes, including those used for attack, defense, or strategic purposes. In addition to cannons and guns, other artillery weapons such as mortars, howitzers, and rockets can also be classified under the category of artilleries. These synonyms are useful for writers and speakers who want to vary their language and avoid repeating the same word multiple times.

What are the hypernyms for Artilleries?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Artilleries

It was this shadowing summit, now suddenly become a fiery vent through which earth's artilleries blazed forth their terrible volleys of molten projectiles, lava masses, huge drifts of ashes, and clouds of flaming, noxious, gaseous emanations to suffocate every living thing.
"Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror"
Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows
Here near Mitchell's, on a lonesome roadside, stood Kincaid's Battery, fated there to stay for hours yet, in hateful idleness and a fierce July sun, watching white smoke-lines of crackling infantry multiply in the landscape or bursting shells make white smoke-rings in the bright air, and to listen helplessly to the boom, hurtle and boom of other artilleries and the far away cheering and counter-cheering of friend and foe.
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable
The winds swept down into the hollow and charged in a riotous combat about the squares and lanes; at each corner was an ambuscade, and everywhere they clashed with artilleries of hail and sleet.
"Clementina"
A.E.W. Mason

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