Search the Dictionary

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.

An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [R.]

The act of disarming.

ball's weight from its diameter, and conversely. -- A ship's caliber, the weight of her armament.

A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by a main armament of big guns all of the same caliber. She has a displacement of…

ply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

ce, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation. Is Lucius general of the forces Shak.

The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.