artillery

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie ("collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc."), from artillier, alteration of atiller (influenced by art), itself from a Vulgar Latin *apticlāre < *apticulāre, from Latin aptāre.