(nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a soundinglead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
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The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict.
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(nautical, chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.
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Arming Sentence Examples
She made a show of arming the laser gun.
Darian exited and dressed in all black, arming himself with knives.
(3) Is it established that a plot and conspiracy has existed tending to kindle civil war within the republic, by arming the citizens against one another ?
Jade walked into Darkyn.s open chamber to find the demon arming himself for battle.
It revised the arming andorganization of the Statute of national militia, the lineal descendent of the old fyrd, cheser.