armorer

[ ahr-mer-er ]

noun

1. a maker or repairer of arms or armor.
2. a person who manufactures, repairs, or services firearms.
3. an enlisted person in charge of the upkeep of small arms, machine guns, ammunition, and the like.

Word History and Origins

Origin of armorer¹

1350–1400; Middle English; replacing Middle English armurer < Anglo-French, Old French armurier. See armor, -er ²

Example Sentences

Our armorer worked early and late unbreeching the guns having wet charges.

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So saying, Roger significantly tapped the handle of the tremendous weapon fashioned for him by an armorer at Ahmedabad.

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Tis for a new arquebus, monsieur, which the armorer has made me.

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The whole art of the armorer had been exhausted in her appointments.

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The Elector again took him to Court, and appointed him an armorer or armor-bearer.

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