different between artillery vs enginery

English

Etymology

From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from a Vulgar Latin *apticl?re < *apticul?re, from Latin apt?re (“to make capable”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t?l??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???t?l??i/

Noun

artillery (countable and uncountable, plural artilleries)

1. Large projectile weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person; usually various types of cannon, but rocket artillery also exists.
2. An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
3. Gunnery.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Campbell to this entry?)

4. (archaic) Weapons

Derived terms

• artillery fungus
• artillery mold
• artillery wheel
• nuclear artillery
• rocket artillery
• tube artillery

Translations

References

• artillery at OneLook Dictionary Search
• artillery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• enginrie (obsolete)

Etymology

engine +? -ry

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd???n?i/

Noun

enginery (countable and uncountable, plural engineries)

1. (archaic) Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
2. (archaic) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
3. (archaic) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
   • a. 1763, William Shenstone, The Ruined Abbey

     To play some image on the gaping crowd,
     Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose,
     Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome

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