light-armed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of light-armed
First recorded in 1610–20
Example Sentences
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For this purpose light-armed, fast-moving troops are needed, equipped with jeeps, half-tracks, light trucks, small arms, machine guns and 75s.
From Time Magazine Archive
The light-armed troops were furnished with a light javelin having a strap or thong fastened to the middle to assist in hurling.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff
The numbers of that host no pen could write Nor reckon; 'tis a multitudinous sight, Long lines of horsemen, lines of targeteers, Archers abundant; and behind them veers A wavering horde, light-armed, in Thracian weed.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
Light′-horse, light-armed cavalry; Light′-horse′man; Light′-in′fantry, infantry lightly or not heavily armed.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He therefore halted, sent for Xenophon from the rear, and desired him to bring forward the light-armed foot-soldiers to the van.
From The Two Great Retreats of History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)
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