Meaning of arms bearer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who carries weapons for another.
2. An armed fighter.

Examples

“The scene shows two hoplites to the right. A young arms bearer follows his superior.”

“Study the passage below in which King Saul, about to lose a battle, asks his arms bearer to kill him.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“To distinguish them from other arms bearers, soldiers in the narrower sense have only been commonly referred to since the French Revolution.”

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