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beweapon

verb

Etymology

From be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon. Compare Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”).

  1. derived from *wēbnom✻
  2. inherited from *wēpną✻
  3. inherited from *wāpn✻
  4. inherited from wǣpn
  5. inherited from wepen
  6. prefixed as beweapon — “be + weapon”

Definitions

  1. To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon

    To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm.

    • And when men were drunk in the evening, King Ingjald spake to Folkvid and Hulvid, the sons of Svipdag, and bade them beweapon themselves and their men even as had been settled earlier in the evening.
    • [...] their javelins, which were easily unslung and thrown from their pouches from horseback, spurred their mounts forward and were at the surviving German guardsmen before they could unslung their shields or beweapon themselves properly.

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