ARMORER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armorer mean? 

• ARMORER (noun)
  The noun ARMORER has 3 senses:

1. a worker skilled in making armor or arms

2. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

3. a manufacturer of firearms

  Familiarity information: ARMORER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMORER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A worker skilled in making armor or arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

armorer; armourer

Context example:

a sword made by a famous English armorer

Hypernyms ("armorer" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Derivation:

armor (protective covering made of metal and used in combat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

armorer; armourer; artificer

Hypernyms ("armorer" is a kind of...):

enlisted man (a male enlisted person in the armed forces)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A manufacturer of firearms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

armorer; armourer

Hypernyms ("armorer" is a kind of...):

maker; manufacturer; manufacturing business (a business engaged in manufacturing some product)

 Context examples 

Away to your lodgings, and come not nigh the prince until the armorer hath placed the true charge upon your shield.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a thought of mine own, said he; for the sword was made by Thomas Wilson, the armorer, who is betrothed to my second daughter Margery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides its trade and its armorers, other causes had combined to pour wealth into it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had ridden over to Poole, one November day, with his fellow-squire, Peter Terlake, in quest of certain yew-staves from Wat Swathling, the Dorsetshire armorer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, by my hilt! you must render them back to me, camarade, lest you bring discredit upon my mission, and I will pay you for them at armorers' prices.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was talk of it in Bordeaux, answered the archer, and I saw myself that the armorers and smiths were as busy as rats in a wheat-rick.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But while the armorer is thrusting in his devil's-dust, and dropping his ball, and lighting his flambeau, I can very easily loose six shafts, or eight maybe, so he hath no great vantage after all.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)