ARMING

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of furnishing with, or taking, arms. The arming was now universal. Macaulay.

2.
n.

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

3.
n.

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.


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