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wapenshaw

wapenshaw is the alternative form of wapinschaw.

Meaning of wapinschaw

Noun

wapinschaw (plural wapinschaws)

  1. (Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
    • The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
  2. (Scotland, historical) A volunteer meeting or shooting competition inspired by this traditional exhibition of weapons.

Forms of wapenshaw

pluralwapenshaws

Questions about wapenshaw

What is wapenshaw the alternative form of?
Wapenshaw is the alternative form of wapinschaw.

Words near wapenshaw in the dictionary

  1. wapatos
  2. Wapello
  3. Wapello County
  4. Wapengo
  5. wapenschaw
  6. wapenshaw
  7. wapenshawing
  8. wapenshawings
  9. wapenshaws
  10. wapentakal
  11. wapentake

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