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Ordnance Survey   /ˈɔrdnəns sərvˈeɪ/   Listen
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Ordnance  n.  Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war. "All the battlements their ordnance fire." "Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his (Rufus Choate's) rifled ordnance."
Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.






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"Ordnance survey" Quotes from Famous Books



... the distinguished head of the Ordnance Survey Department, has shown that the length of one of the sides of the pyramid base, with the casing stones added, as measured by Colonel H. Vyse—viz. 9168 inches—is precisely 360 derahs, or land cubits of Egypt; ...
— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson



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