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arms bearer

arms bearer noun: one who carries weapons for another.

Noun

arms bearer (plural arms bearers)

  1. One who carries weapons for another.
    • The scene shows two hoplites to the right. A young arms bearer follows his superior.1996, Gisela Schneider-Herrmann, Edward Herring, The Samnites of the fourth century BC
    • Study the passage below in which King Saul, about to lose a battle, asks his arms bearer to kill him.2003, Susan Freeman, Teaching Hot Topics: Jewish Values, Resources, and Activities, →ISBN
  2. An armed fighter.
    • What worried the arms bearers was that Saftawi had not worked out his program with Arafat, but with Egypt and Rabin, and briefed Arafat only later.1996, Pinhas Inbari, The Palestinians between terrorism and statehood, page 239
    • He had called on arms bearers to go to the aid of their brethren in the Holy Land and to liberate the Christian holy sites from the heathen.2001, Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, →ISBN, page 141

Examples of arms bearer in a sentence

  • In this brief article, dedicated in friendship to Sy Gitin, I will discuss the job of the arms bearer and show that, as usual, my wife was right!2007, Sidnie White Crawford, Amnon Ben-Tor, "Up to the gates of Ekron": essays on the archaeology and history of the eastern Mediterranean...
  • To distinguish them from other arms bearers, soldiers in the narrower sense have only been commonly referred to since the French Revolution.2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture & Civilization, Volume 4: Religion in the Shadows of Modernity, →ISBN:

Forms of arms bearer

pluralarms bearers

Questions about arms bearer

What does arms bearer mean?
Arms bearer means one who carries weapons for another.
How do you use arms bearer in a sentence?
In this brief article, dedicated in friendship to Sy Gitin, I will discuss the job of the arms bearer and show that, as usual, my wife was right!
What part of speech is arms bearer?
Arms bearer is a noun.
What is the plural of arms bearer?
The plural of arms bearer is arms bearers.

Words near arms bearer in the dictionary

  1. armrests
  2. armring
  3. armrings
  4. arms
  5. arms and legs
  6. arms bearer
  7. arms bearers
  8. arms control
  9. arms dealer
  10. arms dealers
  11. arms factories

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