light-armed

American  

[lahyt-ahrmd] / ˈlaɪtˈɑrmd /

adjective

1. carrying light weapons.

   light-armed troops.

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Etymology

Origin of light-armed

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

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light-armed

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 legionaries were drawn up in close ranks, the light-armed skirmishers more loosely.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

The light-armed troops were then recalled, leaving two squadrons of Companions, containing about three hundred men, to hold the twenty thousand in check if they should attempt a charge.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller

Each galley carried seventy rowers, ten sailors to handle the sails, fifty light-armed archers and slingers, and one hundred and fifty soldiers cased in iron from top to toe.

From The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death by Solon De Leon

This bas-relief is terminated by the combat between a light-armed gladiator and a Samnite.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines