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armsbearing

noun

Etymology

From arms + bearing.

  1. derived from *beraną✻ — “to bear; carry”
  2. inherited from *berandz✻
  3. inherited from berende — “bearing; fruitful”
  4. inherited from beringe
  5. compounded as armsbearing — “arms + bearing”

Definitions

  1. The act of bearing arms

    The act of bearing arms; the possession of weapons.

    • II. A MILITIA OF ALL MEN CAPABLE OF ARMSBEARING.
    • Within a few decades both the regular Dominicans and Franciscans, admittedly in response to more recent papal legislation as well as to these stipulations of the 1280s, were allowing armsbearing to their members under certain conditions;

  2. Engaged in bearing arms

    Engaged in bearing arms; armed.

    • In a war with a single tribe, near a tenth part of the armsbearing population of Massachusetts was killed, and one house in ten laid in ashes.
    • I shall proceed, however, to investigate, as far as possible, the several differences borne by the Nevilles upon the saltire of their first armsbearing ancestor, Robert fitz Maldred.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA