Arsenal
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An arsenal is a place where
are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle differences in usage exist.A sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition, such as any temporary post or patrol vehicle that is only operational in certain times of the day.[3]
Etymology
The term in English entered the language in the 16th century as a loanword from
Types
A lower-class arsenal, which can furnish the
In the early 21st century, the term "floating armoury" described a ship storing weapons to be supplied to merchant vessels in international waters subject to piracy, so that the weapons do not enter territorial waters where they would be illegal.
Operational subdivision
The branches in a great arsenal are usually subdivided into storekeeping, construction and administration:
- Under storekeeping the arsenal should have the following departments and stores: Departments of issue and receipt, pattern room, armoury department, ordnance or park, harness, saddlery and accoutrements, camp equipment, tools and instruments, engineer store, timber yard, breaking-up store, and unserviceable store.
- Under construction: Gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory, small arms factory, harness and tent factory, gunpowder factory, etc. In a second-class arsenal there would be workshops instead of factories.
- Under the head of administration would be classed the chief director of the arsenal, officials military and civil, non-commissioned officers and military artificers, civilian foremen, workmen and laborers, with the clerks and writers necessary for the office work of the establishments.[10]
In the manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping part, good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores.
See also
- Armorer
- Arsenal Academy
- Arsenal, Mainz
- Dresden Armory
- Eddystone Arsenal
- Frankford Arsenal
- Halifax Armoury
- Harpers Ferry Armory
- Imperial Arsenal (Ottoman Empire)
- Kremlin Armoury
- Magazine (artillery)
- Naval Group (France)
- Picatinny Arsenal
- Pine Bluff Arsenal
- Rock Island Arsenal
- Royal Arsenal (UK)
- Royal Armouries (UK)
- Spandau Arsenal
- Springfield Armory
- Venetian Arsenal
- Watertown Arsenal
- Watervliet Arsenal
- Zeughaus (Berlin)
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-861057-1.
- ^ The English barrister and heraldist Arthur Charles Fox-Davies meant that the spelling without a u was never used for weapons but only used for armory in the meaning of the science of coats of arms, which is a part of heraldry, in his book The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory (1904), p. 1
- ^ Firearms, Idaho Department of Correction, 2010, p. 2, archived from the original on 2016-12-24, retrieved 2014-06-12
- ^ "Definition of arsenal – Oxford Dictionaries (British & World English)". Oxford Dictionary of English. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012.
- ^ "Define Arsenal at Dictionary.com". Reference.com.
- ^ "American Heritage Dictionary Entry: arsenal". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
- ^ "Online Etymology Dictionary". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ "Definition of "arsenal" – Collins English Dictionary". Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ "Arsenal – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary". Merriam-Webster.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 02 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 650 to 651.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arsenal". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
