n
(US, military) Military gear for use in the field, including a rifle, bedding, first aid kit, etc.
n
(military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.
adj
Provided with vital supplies for a precise aim, more specifically for the armed forces.
n
(Commonwealth) Alternative form of accouterment [(military, chiefly in the plural) A soldier's equipment, other than weapons and uniform.]
v
(transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.
n
(military, slang) A soldier responsible for carrying the ammunition.
v
Alternative form of ammoed; simple past tense and past participle of ammo
n
(obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
n
(military) Bread which is prepared or used for the supply of armies and garrisons.
adj
(firearms) Of or relating to ammunition.
adj
(Britain) Alternative spelling of antiarmor [(military) Designed for attacking armored vehicles, such as tanks and armored personnel carriers.]
n
equipment used for a specific task or purpose; gear
n
(countable, weaponry, informal) an assault rifle or automatic rifle.
n
(figuratively) Power; might; strength; support.
adv
(of two or more people) With arms linked together; with arms around each other's shoulder or waist.
v
(idiomatic) To equip thoroughly with weapons.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, intransitive) to supply, or be supplied with, arms (weapons)
n
(historical, nautical) A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship.
n
Any equipment for resistance.
n
All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.
n
An armory; a magazine or arsenal.
n
Synonym of ambry (“cupboard or storage area”)
n
Alternative letter-case form of armatole. [(historical) A Greek armed mercenary who enforced Ottoman rule in Greece from the 15th century onwards; during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), many armatoloi became pro-independence guerrilla fighters opposed to Ottoman rule.]
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Alternative form of armatole. [(historical) A Greek armed mercenary who enforced Ottoman rule in Greece from the 15th century onwards; during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), many armatoloi became pro-independence guerrilla fighters opposed to Ottoman rule.]
n
Any apparatus for defence.
adj
possessing a weapon and likely to try to harm or kill someone by using it
n
(military) A military reconnaissance mission performed with heavy combat units where hostile contact with the enemy is expected.
n
(politics) A response to a political issue that involves military action or the use of weapons.
n
One who arms, or supplies weapons.
adj
(in combination, rare) Having the specified number of armies.
adj
(rare) Bearing arms or weapons.
n
Power in arms; military might.
adj
(obsolete, nonce word, poetic) Resounding with arms, or weapons.
n
(military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
n
(pre-firearms warfare) Fighting between armored warriors, such as knights, heavy infantry, heavy cavalry
n
A manufacturer of weapons, especially of guns.
n
(uncommon) An armorer; one who produces arms and armor.
n
US standard spelling of armoury. [Heraldry]
adj
(military) Equipped with armoured vehicles.
n
Alternative spelling of armored combat [(pre-firearms warfare) Fighting between armored warriors, such as knights, heavy infantry, heavy cavalry]
n
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of armorer [A manufacturer of weapons, especially of guns.]
n
A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
n
One who carries weapons for another.
n
Restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation, and usage of weapons, especially weapons of mass destruction.
n
a factory where weapons are produced
n
A competition for military supremacy between two powers, especially for the most weapons and the best military technology.
n
An armed fighter, such as a soldier or knight; one who carries and uses a weapon, as opposed to a member of the support personnel.
n
Alternative form of arms-bearer [One who carries weapons for another.]
n
The act of bearing arms; the possession of weapons.
n
A manufacturer of weapons.
n
A person who makes arrows.
n
A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
n
Alternative form of arsenal of democracy [(politics, figuratively) The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending democratic forms of government.]
n
A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
n
(military) A person who operates artillery.
n
An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
n
(military) A soldier enlisted in an artillery unit or who uses artillery.
n
(military) A female soldier who uses artillery.
n
(military, slang) An artillery crew member.
adj
Equipped with a barrier.
n
(countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons.
v
(transitive, often reflexive) To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm.
v
(transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
n
(military) A large box to hold ammunition.
n
(US) The practice of carrying a firearm on a college or university campus.
n
(archaic) A small disc within the bullseye of a target.
n
The case in which a soldier carries cartridges.
n
(military) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
n
(chiefly US) The practice of carrying a concealed firearm in public.
n
(US) The practice and legal right to carry a handgun without a permit (in particular, as opposed to states that outlaw it).
adj
(in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry
adj
(obsolete) Completely armed; panoplied.
n
An installation that houses a military weapon.
v
(archaic, transitive) To arm; to provide with weapons.
n
(uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
v
Archaic spelling of equipped.
n
(historical, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.
v
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To arm in preparation.
n
(obsolete) Accoutrements, fittings.
n
(chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.
n
(obsolete) Arms and armor, equipment of war.
n
(obsolete) Goods; property; household items.
n
Obsolete form of gear. [(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.]
n
Obsolete form of gear. [(uncountable) Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.]
v
(UK, law and law enforcement, intransitive) To carry tools, weapons or other articles with the intent of using them to commit a crime.
n
(obsolete) Accoutrements: clothes, materials, equipment, furniture, etc.
n
A storage box for firearms
adj
Equipped or bedecked with guns.
n
(Britain, informal) Arsenal football club.
n
Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.
n
A shop where guns are sold.
n
(military, historical) A low-ranking artillery soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
v
(transitive) To equip with armour.
adj
(archaic) Prepared, especially armed with a weapon.
n
A case for carrying a tool, particularly a gun, safely and accessibly.
n
(historical) A small but powerful kind of screw, used by burglars to break open safes.
n
(military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
n
(military) A two-wheeled vehicle to which a wheeled artillery piece or caisson may be attached for transport.
n
(originally military) The set of objects to be carried into battle; all that one needs for a specific purpose.
n
(weaponry) A container used to store and carry ammunition clips.
n
Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.
n
(military, now historical) An artilleryman next in rank to a gunner; a gunner's mate, especially one who assists the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.
n
Alternative spelling of materiel [Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.]
adj
(military) Equipped with armoured motor vehicles; compare motorized (“equipped with unarmoured vehicles”).
n
An extremely powerful weapon.
n
Obsolete form of military. [Armed forces.]
n
Military or police artifacts.
v
To train or equip for war.
n
The armed forces of a nation together with the industries that supply their weapons and materiel.
n
(US, military, slang, often attributive) Obsolete, unneeded, or retired military equipment, often rifles, sold to individuals or businesses.
n
(military) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail.
n
(obsolete) Something used as a defence.
n
(chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
n
(military) A manufacturer of munitions; someone who manufactures munitions; a munitioner
n
(military) A manufacturer of munitions; someone who manufactures munitions; a munitioneer
n
(chiefly US) The practice of openly carrying a firearm in public.
v
(military) To adopt such a position.
n
Obsolete form of ordnance. [Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.]
n
Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
n
(military) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
v
To possess or acquire more powerful weapons than one's opponent
n
Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
v
(transitive) To provide with more weaponry than necessary.
n
(by extension, historical) A collection or display of weaponry.
n
Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity.
n
(military, historical) A box used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece.
n
(colloquial) A distance.
v
(military, usually as imperative) To carry one's personal firearm diagonally in front of the body.
n
(military) A position of salute in the manual of arms in which the gun is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.
v
To inadequately carry a concealed weapon such that its silhouette is visible on the person wearing it.
n
(figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
n
Vehicle armor which reacts to the impact of a weapon in such a way as to reduce the damage done, typically by exploding to disrupt the penetrating jet of a shaped-charge weapon.
v
To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body.
n
(military) A position of a soldier in which the piece passes between the right elbow and the body at an angle of 45°.
n
Alternative form of right to keep and bear arms [(chiefly US) The right of individuals to possess firearms and armor.]
n
(chiefly US) The right of individuals to possess firearms and armor.
n
The amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to the right to keep and bear arms.
v
(military) To guard the firearms from becoming wet.
n
A magazine for storing ammunition for immediate use.
n
(colloquial) Synonym of shotgun house
n
Alternative spelling of sidearm [A personal weapon, such as a handgun or sword, carried on the hip in a belt, sheath, holster, etc., for rapid access.]
n
money, seen as necessary to wage war effectively
n
(military, historical) A complete set of weapons for one soldier.
n
(specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
v
To ward off by holding the arms out straight.
n
Superweapons collectively.
adj
(firearms) having a military appearance, typically with accessories such as a bipod, adjustable stock, detachable magazine or black coloration
v
(transitive with against or for) Prepare to fight; to arm oneself.
n
(military, slang, chiefly in the plural) Any branch of the military that engages in direct combat.
n
(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
n
(military slang, now historical) Trench mortar.
v
(transitive) To equip with tools.
v
(informal, intransitive) To arm oneself with a weapon, especially a gun.
n
(art, architecture) A display of weaponry and other militaria, often captured from a defeated enemy, as an ornament designed for the purpose of triumphalist display by a victor or as a show of military prowess by a monarch.
adj
(chiefly Australia) Carrying a weapon (chiefly of a criminal); of a crime, committed using a weapon or weapons.
v
(transitive) To supply with insufficient weaponry.
adj
Armed for battle; prepared for or engaged in warfare.
adj
(military, of a Humvee or other combat vehicle) Having had its armor upgraded.
adv
By force, violently; specifically, causing damage to a person or property.
n
Alternative form of wapinschaw [(Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.]
n
(Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
n
(obsolete) Armed forces.
n
The military resources of a belligerent country considered as a whole.
n
Alternative form of war chest [A fund to finance a war]
adj
Fitted with a warhead.
n
Clipping of weapon. [An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.]
n
Abbreviation of weapon. [An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.]
v
(transitive) To equip with a weapon; to arm.
n
(now historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon.
v
(military) To provide with appropriate weaponry for use against the chosen targets.
n
The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
n
(rare) A focus on weaponry.
n
(rare) A user, maker or proponent of weapons.
adj
Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
n
One who or that which weaponizes.
adj
(nonstandard, rare) Like a weapon.
adj
(by extension, informal) Extreme.
n
Alternative form of wapinschaw [(Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.]
n
Alternative form of wapinschaw [(Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.]
n
A member of a group that is armed with and has the job of using some type of weapon.
adj
(military, weaponry) (of a gun, artillery, etc.) Operated well.
n
(obsolete) The act or power of wielding.
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