ordenance

O1R1D2E1N1A1N1C3E1

A form of ordnance — Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.

Scrabble 12
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounordenance (countable and uncountable, plural ordenances)

plural ordenances

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of ordnance.

    Worke, worke your Thoughts, and therein see a Siege: / Behold the Ordenance on their Carriages, / With fatall mouthes gaping on girded Harflew.

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene chorus]
Cite this entry
APA

ordenance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ordenance

MLA

“ordenance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ordenance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ordenance,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ordenance.

Source: ordenance on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.