Arming
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:12 pts6 letters
Definition of Arming
verb
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
"The king armed his knights with swords and shields."
- To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.
"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.
"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.
noun
- 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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