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Definition of Light-armed

1. Adjective. Armed with light weapons.

2. Adjective. Armed with light equipment and weapons. "A light-armed brigade"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-armed

ligements liger ligers ligge ligged liggen ligger liggers ligges ligging

liggings light light(a) light-activated resin light-adapted eye light-armed (current term) light-blue light-bulb light-colored light-cured resin

light-duty light-duty vehicle light-emitting diode light-emitting diodes light-fingered light-footed light-green light-haired light-handed light-handedly

Literary usage of Light-armed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"Night was now coming on, and, under cover of the darkness,2 the light-armed took to Flight of the light- flight.3 Some fled on foot, some, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitiesby William George Smith, Charles Anthon by William George Smith, Charles Anthon (1870)
"Besides the heavy and light armed soldiers, I oir/irai and ... By wearing these they were distinguished from the light-armed, whom Herodotus,' for the ..."

3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... and opportunity to use them, they lost no ground; for the light-armed . ... were to have joined him (for he stood most in need of light-armed darters), ..."

4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... by which they entered with their men of arms, and encompassing the ground with their light armed soldiers killed those that were entered with stones. ..."

5. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith (1855)
"10. Campaign of Agesilaus in the Corinthian Territory. §11. New System of Tactics introduced by Iphicrates. Destruction of a Spartan Mora by his light-armed ..."

6. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... with a formidable Body of Auxiliaries—Douglas and Randolph advance into Northumberland at the Head of a light-armed Army—Edward marches as far as the ..."

7. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1901)
"... with a formidable Body of Auxiliaries—Douglas and Randolph advance into Northumberland at the Head of a light-armed Army—Edward marches as far as the ..."

8. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"We thus see how great is the change from the time when the hastati were the light-armed (from hasta) of the Greek phalanx. ..."

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