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Webster 1913 Edition
Equipment
1.
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
Burke.
The
equipment
of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.
2.
Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage;
as, a railroad
; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments. equipment
(locomotives, cars, etc. Armed and dight,
In the
In the
equipments
of a knight. Longfellow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Equipment
EQUIP'MENT
,Noun.
1.
Any thing that is used in equipping; furniture; habiliments; warlike apparatus; necessaries for an expedition, or for a voyage; as the equipments of a ship or an army.