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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
armourer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He found him sitting in his canvas chair beside a brazier, drinking Guinness with the chief armourer.
▪ He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner.
▪ The adjutant found Woolley with the armourer, checking ammunition before he allowed his machine-gun drums to be filled.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
armourer

armourer \armourer\ n.

  1. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

    Syn: armorer, artificer.

  2. a manufacturer of firearms.

    Syn: armorer

Wiktionary
armourer

n. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of armorer English)

WordNet
armourer
  1. n. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. [syn: armorer, artificer]

  2. a manufacturer of firearms [syn: armorer]

Wikipedia
Armourer

Historically, an armourer is a person who makes personal armour, especially plate armour. In modern terms, an armourer is a member of a military or police force who works in an armoury and maintains and repairs small arms and weapons systems, with some duties resembling those of a civilian gunsmith.

With the renewed interest in traditional armour and weaponry, the occupation also involves working with film, stage, and historical and reenactment societies. Period costumes may require reproduction armour, swords, and related equipment.

Usage examples of "armourer".

I need to know how many weapons our master armourers can turn out in two months, and how many more we might purchase.

I shall make your crutch your staff of office and see the armourers about a blade myself.

Grain-sellers and armourers and clothiers and horse-sellers and countless other suppliers smile with the pleasure of impending wealth.

He found an armourer who ran the blade up his treadled wheel and afterwards stropped it on his leather apron.

The armourer treadled his wheel, then kissed the blade onto the stone so that sparks flowed like crushed diamonds from the steel.

Before another tenner passed, King JandolAnganol was armed with Sibornalese matchlocks -weapons supplied not by his allies in Pannoval or Oldorando, not forged by his own armourers, but brought by devious routes as a gift from those who were his enemies.

Before another tenner passed, King JandolAnganol was armed with Sibornalese matchlocks - weapons supplied not by his allies in Pannoval or Oldorando, not forged by his own armourers, but brought by devious routes as a gift from those who were his enemies.

Renouf, who was genuinely fascinated by bomb ketches and very proud of his mortars, regarded 4,000 yards as an acceptable range: the master armourer at Brest had tried out all four mortars at the sea range off Camaret, firing five rounds from each, with the master shipwright in attendance, and going down and inspecting the underdeck stanchions and the stringers after each round was fired.

For just over an hour Pooris worked through the tasks he had set himself for the day, compiling a list of armourers, and the various orders for swords, spears, crossbow bolts and armour placed with them, along with the delivery dates promised.

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armourers had made a new, gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.

Green, Armourers since 2203 was a discreet corner facade, extending less than a half dozen metres along each street, but bordered by blinded units that looked as if they had probably been annexed.

There were ten tables running down the middle, fitted with test rigs and the various cybernetic tools the armourers used.

The fleshers and brewers and smiths and weavers and skinners and saddlers and salters and cappers and masons and cutlers and fletchers and plasterers and armourers and porters and water carriers, and the one-eyed man who had called at Bogle House selling fumigating pans.

But the others are armourers, fowlers, cordwainers, wheelwrights, and other skilled craftsmen, as well as two farmers.

The Ballantyne Scouts had been one of the elite units of the security forces, and Craig had been attached to them as an armourer.