Arming

Verb

1. Present participle of arm

Full definition of arming

Noun

1. (nautical) A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
2. The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
• MacaulayThe arming was now universal.
3. (nautical, chiefly in the plural) One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

Anagrams

• Ingram
• margin