1660 A. Moore 296 Amurath..commanded ten great Artillery pieces to be cast.
1775 tr. ix. 203 The artillery pieces take but ten pounds only of pewter to one hundred of the other [sc. copper].
1852 Feb. 325/2 The artillery pieces were left among the sandhills, that the horses might be used for the relief of the sufferers.
1997 D. Rohde (1998) 68 ‘Don't shoot it, don't shoot it,’ Egbers said slowly in English as he pointed at the artillery piece to make himself clear.