| 单词 | place of arms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplace of arms place of arms n. n.ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > place for assembling troops place of arms1588 rendezvous?1591 rendy1605 place d'armes1833 1588 J. Aske Elizabetha Triumphans 22 The Battells set do march in braue aray Both too and fro the stately Generall, Who now was come unto the place of Armes. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 103 It is onely a place of armes..and is to bee left free and vnpestered for onely the battell when it is to be set. 1612 W. Strachey Lawes in P. Force Tracts (1844) III. ii. 21 If the iniurie be by words, he the offender shal aske his Officer pardon in the place of Arms, in the mead of the troopes. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Place of Arms in a Garrison, is a large open Spot of Ground in the middle of the City, where the great Streets meet, else between the Ramparts and the Houses, for the Garrison to Rendezvous in, upon any sudden Alarm, or other Occasion. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 217 I was posted upon a Parade, or Place of Arms. 1777 W. Hamilton Acct. Discov. Pompeii 3 View of the place of arms at the little gate of Pompeii. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) In offensive fortification those lines are called places of arms on parallels which unite the different means of attack. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 229/2 Re-entering place of arms is an enlargement of the covered way of a fortress..; it serves..for assembling troops previously to making sorties. b. Army. A strongly fortified city, used as an arsenal or place of retreat (now archaic and historical); (also occasionally) †a tent at the head of each company where weapons and ammunition were stored (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] chestera855 boroughc893 fastnessOE strength?c1225 warnestore1297 fortress13.. holdc1330 strongholdc1384 motec1390 fortalicec1425 garnisonc1430 garrisonc1430 town of war1441 wall-town1488 strengh1489 afforciament1509 piece1525 forcea1552 citadel1567 fort1569 place1575 holt1600 alcazar1623 fasthold1623 afforcement1642 castle-town1646 post1648 garrison-town1649 bridlea1661 palank1685 place of arms1704 ostrog1761 qila1761 presidio1763 gurry1786 thana1803 pa1823 castrum1836 lis1845 Gibraltar1856 training post1867 kasbah1902 jong1904 society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons armoury1440 arsenal1572 magazinea1599 small armoury1713 armamentary1727 place of arms1768 ammunition depot1799 expense magazine1839 bell1858 ammunition dump1918 weapon-pita1944 silo1958 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Place of Arms, when taken in the General, is a strong City which is pitch'd upon for the Magazine of an Army. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4466/1 It is said the Germans design to make St. Germano..a Place of Arms. 1768 T. Simes Mil. Dict. Place of arms of a camp, are the belltents, at the head of each company, where they lodge their arms. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 190 Dunkirk was..prized..not merely as a place of arms,..but also as a trophy of English valour. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 825/2 Sherman broke up his railway communication, destroying Atlanta as a place of arms. 2004 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic text) at Simcoe, John Graves He envisioned the province [sc. Upper Canada] as a strategic, offensive-defensive bulwark.., with naval bases on the lakes linked by roads radiating from a centrally located, inland 'place of arms' at London..to forestall future American aggression. < as lemmas |
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