Artillery

Any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war.

The word as used in the current context originated in the middle-ages. It comes from the Old French atellier meaning to arrange, and attillement meaning equipment. From the 13th C. an artillier referred to a builder of any war equipment, and for the next 250 years the word artillery was used to cover all forms of military weapons.

• Catapult
• Cannon

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