Ordnance Survey : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ordnance Survey	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Ordnance Survey
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ordnance Survey n the official cartography agency of the British government
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ordnance \Ord"nance\, n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See {Ordinance}.] Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. --Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. --E. Ererett. {Ordnance survey}, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.