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c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xx. 58 A grete shyppe,..wel furnyshyd with bysket, wynes and flesshe,..and with monysyons of warre [Fr. ordonnee dartillerie].

1517 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 122 The hail munitioun, viz. pikkis, halbartis, billis, matokkis [etc.].

1544 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 140 All the victelles powder and monycions of the shippe.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lvi They were neyther sufficiently furnished of Munition nor weapons.

1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 98 No maruell thoghe, thear harts with in did quaill Who did..behold Thear powlder faild, thear water waxed skant Thear hoep is small, that doth munishon want.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 226 By furnishing him at his neede with store of men and munition to his warres, and now to be thus vsed he thought it a very euill requitall.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Munition, great Ordinance for the warre, great shot.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 163 We had of Tooles, Armes, and Munition sufficient.

a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1677) ii. 81 Right against it was all the munition of the Castle planted.

1642 Petition in House Lords 16 Apr. in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1702) I. v. 383 Armes, and Munition for defence of this Kingdom.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Munition, or Ammunition, the Provisions wherewith any Place is furnished in order for defence; or wherewith a Vessel is stock'd for a Voyage; or [those] that follow a Camp for its Subsistence.

1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 200 The President states..that they have given aid to neither of the parties in men, money, ships or munitions of war.

1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 141 De Vaux having been sent to Ascalon to bring up reinforcements and supplies of military munition.

1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xvii. 223 Gunpowder, firearms, or any other commodity which may be brought within the definition of munitions of war.

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xii. 123 There seemed to be a great ruck of men and munitions spread about in the forest and in the fields.

1941 D. Thomas Let. 2 Apr. (1985) 478 The boys of the Government will get me making munitions... Clocking in, turning a screw, winding a wheel..every cartridge case means one less Jerry.

1955 Mil. Affairs 19 74 Atomic munitions which give one aircraft the destructive power of 300 TNT-loaded bombers, or considerably more H-weapons, upsets the offensive-defensive balance still more.

1986 Stone's Justices' Man. (ed. 118) III. v. 6252 An aircraft shall not carry any munition of war unless..with the written permission of the Authority.