Definition of "ordnance-sergeant" [ordnance-sergeant]

• A non-commissioned staff-officer whose duty it is to receive, preserve, and issue all ordnance, arms, ammunition, or other ordnance stores at a military post or station, under the regulations of the War Department. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The invoices were signed by the former ordnance-sergeant, Olodowski, as a captain of ordnance, and I think he continued such on General Bragg's staff through the whole of the subsequent civil war."
• "He had been drinking at the Name's-Day party of the ordnance-sergeant."
• "Just then entered an ordnance-sergeant, so smart in his rags that the"