arming
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Definitions ofarming
- To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms.
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
Example: "The king armed his knights with swords and shields."
- To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
Example: "Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work."
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
Example: "to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling"
- To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
- The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
- (chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
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