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weapon-schaw

weapon-schaw 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 weapon-schaw

pluralweapon-schaws

Questions about weapon-schaw

What is weapon-schaw the alternative form of?
Weapon-schaw is the alternative form of wapinschaw.

Words near weapon-schaw in the dictionary

  1. weapon oaths
  2. weapon of mass destruction
  3. weapon of mass disruption
  4. weapon-salve
  5. weapon-salves
  6. weapon-schaw
  7. weapon-schaws
  8. weaponed
  9. weaponeer
  10. weaponeered
  11. weaponeering

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