Ammunition: Definition and part of speech

Ammunition

  1. n. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
  2. n. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
  3. n. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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