Definition of "ordnance-officer" [ordnance-officer]

• The line-officer third in rank on a United States man-of-war. He has general charge and supervision of the guns, small-arms, ammunition, etc., but not of the drill. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Artillery, learned that her son Fred had been the ordnance-officer in charge of the arsenal, and had of course fled with Hardee's army."
• "All arms and public property to be deposited at Greensboro ', and delivered to an ordnance-officer of the United States Army."
• "Take with you the twelve mortars, with their ammunition, and all the thirty-pound Parrotts the ordnance-officer will supply."