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arms-bearer en · NOUN

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1. One who carries weapons for another.
   • Ilos would stand arms-bearer for our father and Drimios for Tros' favorite heketas. 2015, BC Dick, Troidai, →ISBN, page 50:
   • As for women, only Venus, stripped of her femininity as arms-bearer for Caesar, and the virginal goddess Vesta are present (4.1.46 and 4.1.21). 2005, Ronnie Ancona, Ellen Greene, Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, →ISBN, page 316:
   • His arms-bearer answered him, "Do whatever you like. You go first, I am with you, whatever you decide." 2014, Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, The Jewish Study Bible, →ISBN:
   • And the men of the outpost called to Jonathan and his arms-bearer: "Come on up to us, and we will show you a thing! " 2009, Hillel I. Millgram, The Invention of Monotheist Ethics - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 128:
2. An armed fighter, such as a soldier or knight; one who carries and uses a weapon, as opposed to a member of the support personnel.
   • An important rule of heraldry (often overlooked by makers of historical dramas) is that only the arms-bearer could wear or use his own arms and fly his own banner and standard - his retainers and followers could only use his livery colours and his badge or badges on pennons and flags. 1990, William G. Crampton, The Complete Guide to Flags, page 15:
   • By setting rules specifying whom arms-bearers were not allowed to attack, the kinds of property they were not allowed to touch, and days of the week and seasons of the year when they were not allowed to use arms, the peace council regulations also gave the Church the authority to determine who could employ arms, for what purpose, on whose command, against whom, and when. 2002, Tomaz Mastnak, Crusading Peace, →ISBN:
   • Lamenting the fact that "scarcely an inch of the page of history has been appropriated" to the memory of the black arms-bearers of the Revolutionary War, Henry Highland Garnet sought to redress the balance in an address before the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1840. 1988, Benjamin Quarles, Black mosaic: essays in Afro-American history and historiography:

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Translations (3)

it armigero (one who carries weapons) · es armiguero (one who carries weapons) · it soldato armato (one who carries weapons)