society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > armourer > [noun] > one who makes artillery or firearms > specific processes (3)
A person whose job involves hardening a particular substance or object; spec. one whose job is to harden metal. Now rare (chiefly historical).
A person employed in percussioning firearms.
One who flakes; spec. one who strikes off flakes of flint to be used as gun-flints.