Meaning of armoury | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
   UK, countable, uncountable
2. A collection of weapons and materiel.
   UK, countable, uncountable
3. A place where arms are made.
   UK, countable, uncountable
4. The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
   UK, countable, uncountable
5. Heraldry.
   UK, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“(1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.”

“He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…]”

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