arming

arming

1. present participle of arm

arming (plural armings)

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

2. The act of supplying with arms and ammunition in preparation of a conflict
   • Macaulay

     The 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.

• FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

• Ingram, Maring, margin, raming

From the adjective arm

• IPA^(key): /²ɑrmɪŋ/

arming m (definite singular armingen, indefinite plural armingar, definite plural armingane)

1. A pitiful person, someone who is to be pitied.
   • 1861, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, "Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860":

     Og derfor heller Ingen er som slik ein Arming litit sæl; og um an ikki er os kjær, so maa me vilja honom vel.

     And therefore no one is as unhappy as such a pitiful person; and even if he is not dear to us, we must wish him well.

• “arming” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.