Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
armoury .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word armouries.
Examples
-
Maybe not enough time has passed; maybe the illusory success of governments 'interventions mean that the pain has just been postponed with little left in the armouries.
DK Matai: Asymmetric Threat Of A Second Great Depression? 2010
-
Maybe not enough time has passed; maybe the illusory success of governments 'interventions mean that the pain has just been postponed with little left in the armouries.
DK Matai: Asymmetric Threat of a Second Great Depression? 2010
-
The encrustation of sheds, stores, armouries and cramped living quarters all round the wall within consisted mainly of timber.
A River So Long 2010
-
Instead we should see protectionism as a tool in nations' armouries that can be deployed to help address their local economic freefall, but is also capable of creating far-reaching collateral damage.
Is it time to reconsider free trade? Stephen Retherford 2009
-
Instead we should see protectionism as a tool in nations' armouries that can be deployed to help address their local economic freefall, but is also capable of creating far-reaching collateral damage.
Archive 2009-04-01 Stephen Retherford 2009
-
Then he opened his armouries and distributed arms and armour to the troops, after which he set out with them and journeyed till he came to Isbanir, and all encamped before the city-gate.
-
They kissed the earth before him in obedience to his commands and began at once to lay in munitions, and provide provisions for the occasion; whilst Sharrkan repaired to the armouries and took therefrom whatsoever he required of arms and armour, and thence to the stable where he chose horses of choice blood and others.
-
Historian Desmond Morton suggests that “for the most part, the crowds of men who jammed into the armouries were neither militia nor Canadian-born.”
-
(PNU) of "raiding official armouries" to arm pro-government militia, including the Mungiki.
-
He accused Kibaki's party of "raiding official armouries" to equip the militias "who are then unleashed to kill innocent Kenyans protesting the flawed presidential elections."
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.