enginery

/ˈɛnd͡ʒɪnɹi/

Etymology

From engine + -ry.

enginery means machinery made up of engines; instruments of war. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ENGINERY — [Noun] A collective term for machinery or instruments, particularly the engines of war or complex mechanical devices as a whole. From Middle English engine ("mechanical device, especially a war machine") + the suffix -ery (denoting a class or collection of things). Unlike "machinery," a neutral term for functional assemblies, or "artillery," which specifies large projectile weapons, "enginery" evokes the archaic totality of mechanical invention bent to martial purpose. It is the groaning mass of a siege tower on muddy earth, the cold metallic gleam of ballista bolts in their rack, and the rhythmic hiss of a steam-powered ram breaching a wall—the somber poetry of applied force, where ingenuity serves only attrition.

noun

Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.“Training his devilish enginery.”
The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.“[B]ehold / Not diſtant far with heavie pace the Foe / Approaching groſs and huge; in hollow Cube / Training his deviliſh Enginrie, impal'd / On every ſide with ſhaddowing Squadrons Deep, / To hide the fraud.”
Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.“To play some image on the gaping crowd, Imbibe the novel daylight, and expose, Obvious, the fraudful enginery of Rome”