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单词 defensible array
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defensible array
c. Of weapons, armour, clothing, etc.: that provides protection against attack or injury. Frequently in defensible array. Now archaic and rare.
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1415–16 in Hull Bench Bk. 2 f. 243 Also ilkan of yame sal..yeld up all maner of wapons defensables.
?1418 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 70 In here best and most defensable harneys.
1513–14 Act 5 Henry VIII c. 6 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 95 Any armor or defencible gere of Warre.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lvi The citezens..had prouided for al thinges necessary & defensible.
c1613 ( in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 40 All such personnes as ye may make in there most defensible arrey.
1663 N. Boteler War Practically Perform'd i. i. 9 Such kind of Arms as are defensible against the Sword.
1797 J. Pinkerton Hist. Scotl. II. xiv. 296 Their followers in the most defensible array.
1834 Court Mag. & Belle Assemblée Mar. 121/2 The fire-arms and other defensible weapons were prepared.
1856 London Q. Rev. Jan. 125/1 The hermit crab, which is obliged to dress its soft body in the first defensible armour it can pick up.
1915 Evening News 24 Aug. 5/3 Warn his clergy to be in defensible array.
1974 J. Lane Heirs Squire Harry v. 129 Repair to his Highness at his manor of Hampton Court, in defensible array, with harness and weapons.
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