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armament(dictionary)

armament (iou)



armament noun. L17.
[Latin armamentum (in classical Latin only pl.), from armare ARM verb1: see -MENT.]
A force (esp. naval) equipped for war. arch. L17.
Tolkien Ar-Pharaz?n..prepared then the greatest armament that the world had seen, and when all was ready he sounded his trumpets and set sail.
sing. & in pl. Military weapons and equipment; (usu. sing.) the weapons mounted on a warship, aircraft, tank, etc. E18.
M. Arnold-Forster Throughout the rest of 1940..Britain imported the food and armaments she needed from the United States in her own ships. J. G. Farrell Fleury looked to his armament, which..included a sabre,..a couple of wavy-bladed daggers from Malaya, and another, Indian, dagger. D. Howarth Going in to attack, the Exeter drew the fire of the Graf Spee's main armament.
The process of equipping for war. E19.
A. J. P. Taylor Armament on a large scale was begun after the general election of 1935.