ARTY • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Arty

... don't know as I begrudge that, though your election, Arty, cost me four hundred and seven dollars and—I've got ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

... Battery, and Major Bartlett of C Battery, dined with us that night, and the best story told concerned an extremely non-military subaltern, newly attached to the D.A.C. When instructed to deliver an important message to "Div. Arty."—the Army condensation for "Divisional Artillery"—he pored long and hopelessly over a map. Finally he appealed to a brother officer. "I can't find the village of 'DIVARTY' on the map," he said, and, of course, sprang into ...

— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)