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wappens(c)hawing Sc. Hist.|ˈwapnʃɑɪŋ|
Forms: α. 5 wapinschawin, wapynschawing, 5–6 wap(p)inschawing, -schewing, 6 waping-, vapin-, wapo(u)nschawing, vaupynschauyng, 9 wappenschawing; β. semi-modernized 6 weapon-showing, 9 weapon-shawing.
[f. wapen weapon + schawing showing vbl. n.; = Du. wapenschouwing. Cf. prec.]
A periodical muster or review of the men under arms within a particular lordship or district.
1424Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 8/2 It is ordanyt þan in ilk scheredome of þe realme þere be maid wapynschawing four tymis in þe ȝer. 1512Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 366/2 The kingis hienes..has ordanit him to resave the musteris and wapinschewingis of all his folkis. 1541in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. viii. 66 The Wapinschawing off Annerdale tane be my Lord Maxwell wppon Burniswerkhill. 1549Compl. Scot. xi. (1872) 96 Kyng eduard..ordand thre vaupynschauyngis to be maid al on ane day in scotland be scottis men.., and at thay vaupynschauyngis, al the vaupynis and armour of scotland to be delyuerit to the inglismen. 1560in Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 3 That frome hencefurth they be not compelled to tak on credite, they sall be everie moneth satisfeid of their wages, so that two Scotish lords, chosin by the counsell, may present it at weapon-showing and musters of the said men of warre. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 321 Thair vas vapin⁓schawing throch all Scotland. 1633in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1634, 45/2 At all generall musteris and wapounschawingis within the said schirrefdome. 1828Scott F.M. Perth iii, The best wrestler,..the king of the weapon-shawing—the breaker of mad horses. 1830― Doom Devorgoil i. i, Hark! they have broken up the weapon-shawing. 1905G. Wilson Ann. Glover Incorporat. Perth 13 On one of these occasions of wappenschawing a serious riot took place. |