arming

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To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.“The king armed his knights with swords and shields.”
To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate.“Remember to arm the alarm system before leaving for work.”
To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.“to arm the hit of a sword; to arm a hook in angling”
To furnish with means of defence; to prepare for resistance; to fortify, in a moral sense.

A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
(chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.