Noun artillery has 3 senses
  1. artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance - large but transportable armament
    --1 is a kind of armament
    --1 is a part of battery
    --1 has parts: stock, gunstock
    --1 has particulars:
     cannon; catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket; field artillery, field gun; four-pounder
  2. artillery, artillery unit - an army unit that uses big guns
    --2 is a kind of army unit
    --2 has particulars: battery
  3. weapon, artillery - a means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons"
    --3 is a kind of persuasion, suasion
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