单词 | heavy-armed |
释义 | heavy-armedadj. Bearing heavy armour or arms. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > heavily strong-armedc1384 weighty1581 heavy1836 heavy-armed1836 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 388/2 The employment of artillery in the field deprived this heavy armed cavalry of all the advantages it possessed over the soldiers who fought on foot. 1843 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. Ὁπλίτης, a heavy-armed foot-soldier, man-at-arms, who carried a pike and a large shield. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 72 As the heavy-armed Spartans..did at the battle of Plataea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1836 |
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