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noun

Equipment n.

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. "The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt."

Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc.; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. "Armed and dight, In the equipments of a knight."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Equipment" Quotes from Famous Books

... ear to British whisperings. The consequences were that a party of mounted dragoons organized by Judge Benjamin Parke to protect Vincennes and who made a demand for pistols and swords, did not receive their equipment until late in the following spring, and then the swords were found to be of iron; that no orders were issued to form a friendly alliance with the Miami chiefs, and hold them steadfast; that the small detachment of one hundred and twenty or one hundred and thirty ...

— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce

... touched, Artistic Stoicism peels off like rusted armour. Dick had seriously began to consider, during the last few days, whether the exact opposite of Artistic Stoicism (let us call it Natural Impulsiveness) is not almost as good an equipment. He began to see something admirable in Frank's attitude to life, and the more he regarded it the ...

— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson

... keeping on the gardener. The deceased Mr Wilson might not have, indeed plainly had not, been imbued with the latest views on gardening, but whatever had been done here had been done under the eye of a knowledgeable man, and the equipment and stock were excellent. Cooper was delighted with the pleasure Humphreys showed, and with the suggestions he let fall from time to time. 'I can see,' he said, 'that you've found your meatear here, Mr Humphreys: you'll make this place a regular signosier ...

— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Part 2: More Ghost Stories • Montague Rhodes James

... involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all respects, but particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing ...

— Why We are at War • Woodrow Wilson

... student of disease. Perhaps he would have granted that destructive principles are pregnant with human interest in the abstract, but his intelligence certainly was not challenged by these dark systems of activity. He saw that even if his mind were not held in anguish, he lacked the equipment to cope with Pleiad affairs. As it was, his attention positively would not concentrate upon the rapid undercurrents, where the real energy of the habitues seemed to operate. It was all like a game of evil ...

— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

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