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light-armed, a.
[light adv.1]
Bearing light armour or arms.
1618Bolton Florus iii. x. (1630) 205 Hee with light armed bands of Souldiers got into Gall. 1772Ann. Reg. 234 We..Are but the light-arm'd rangers on the scout. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. x, England's light-arm'd vessels ride, Not distant far, the waves of Clyde.
fig.1645Milton Colast. 2, I still was waiting, when these light-arm'd refuters would have don pelting. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 306 Lead on my sons, Light-arm'd with Points, Antitheses, and Puns. |