armouries

Noun

armoury (countable and uncountable, plural armouries)

1. (UK, also, figuratively) A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
   • Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing...2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Tackling broken rails: the skills and technology improving safety”, in RAIL, number 1057, pages 30-31
2. (UK) A collection of weapons and materiel.
3. (UK) A place where arms are made.
4. (UK) The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
   • (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, page 530
5. (UK) Heraldry.
6. (UK, collective, noun, rare) A family or group of aardvarks.
   • A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole2025, Robyn Smythe, Arthur the Aardvark: The Story of a True Warrior