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beweapon en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (often, reflexive, transitive) To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm.
   • [...] 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. 2009, John Van Kirk, The Aconian War - Page 266:
   • 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. 1891, Snorri Sturlson, Heimskringla: - Page 191:

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