What is "armorers"

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Their power drove mills for tanning and laundering, sawing wood, pressing olive oil, casting iron, mashing malt for beer and pulp for paper and pigment for paints, operating fullers’ vats for finishing woolen cloth, bellows for blast furnaces, hy­draulic hammers for foundries, and wheels for grindstones used by armorers.

They also carried millstones and bake ovens, armorers and their forges, and extra materials to keep the bowmen supplied with arrows.

Its marvels, recorded by a friar of the previous century, included 6,000 fountains for drinking water, 300 public ovens, ten hospitals of which the largest accommodated 1,000 patients two to a bed, 1,500 lawyers, forty copyists of documents, 10,000 monks of all orders, and 100 armorers manufacturing the famous Milanese armor.

The great maritime republics of Venice and Genoa still brought to Europe the cargoes of the East, the Italian network of banking and credit still buzzed with in­ visible business, the weavers of Florence, the armorers of Milan, the glassblowers of Venice, the artisans of Tuscany still pursued their crafts under red-tiled roofs.

Yet war could hardly have failed to give employment and spread money—to armorers, carters, grain dealers, bakers, horse-breeders, and a hundred other trades besides the archers, foot soldiers, and servants in the army.

Heavy battle-axes and maces cut through Flemish helmets with a noise “as loud as all the armorers of Paris and Brussels working together.

For the King’s visit to Burgundy, tailors, embroiderers, goldsmiths, armorers, and all trades and crafts received orders for goods and services.

The Guild of Armorers came in a body to begin the work of carrying away rubble in baskets.

The two shotguns belonging to the dreadlocked twins, Ant and Dee, stood to one side, their appalling condition causing the Armorers to set them aside, perhaps for special treatment, perhaps because of a fear that their dirt and poor condition may spread to the other blasters.

On their respective side, Ant and Dee both secured the tripods, and left the two Armorers seated, with the blasters at the requisite angle.

He stood in the center of the ville while his people scavenged, and a party of sec and some of the stronger ville dwellers— the blacksmith and the armorers among them—rigged the nuke with ropes and makeshift platforms to effect a way of carrying it back to Raw.

He had the armorers load a light practice bomb into the rack and took his Zero up.

The fighter could carry 250 kilos without any trouble, but the armorers hadn’t been able to find one that size.

They’d gas him up, the armorers would reload the guns, and then he’d be off again.

And when there weren't enough volunteers, extremely competent armorers were sometimes "volunteered.