Armourer

Definition: Armourer

Armourer

Noun

1. An enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.

2. A manufacturer of firearms.

Date "armourer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Synonyms: Armourer

Synonyms: armorer (n), artificer (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Armourer

Specialty definitions using "armourer": Perillo Swords. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Armourer & His Craft (reference) Cwan , The Armourer (reference) The Armourer and His Craft: From the Xith to the Xvth Century (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Armourer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Armourer" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	86.67%	13	97,576
Noun (proper)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Expression using "armourer": fitter armourer. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "armourer": corporal-armourer, sergeant-armourer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "armourer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		armëpunues (armorer, gunsmith). (various references)

Arabic		‏مصلح الأسلحة النارية (armorer), ‏صانع السلاح (armorer, gunsmith), ‏خبير الأسلحة (armorer). (various references)

Bulgarian		фабрикант на оръжия (armorer), оръжейник (armorer, gunsmith), оръжеен майстор (armorer, gunsmith). (various references)

Finnish		aseseppä (gunsmith), varusmestari. (various references)

French		armurier. (various references)

German		waffenschmied (armorer). (various references)

Greek		οπλοποιόσ (armorer, gunsmith). (various references)

Hungarian		fegyvermester (armorer, artificer, gunsmith, provost-marshal), fegyvergyáros (armorer). (various references)

Italian		armiere (armorer). (various references)

Manx		gaaue armyn, eilleyder, armeyder (squire). (various references)

Pig Latin		armoureray

Portuguese		armeiro (armorer, armory, armoury, gunman, gunsmith). (various references)

Romanian		armurier (armorer, gun smith). (various references)

Russian		оружейный мастер (armorer, gunsmith). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		puškar (armorer, gunsmith), oružar (armorer, gunsmith). (various references)

Spanish		armero (armorer, gunsmith, rack). (various references)

Swedish		vapensmed (armorer), vapenfabrikant (armorer). (various references)

Turkish		zırh yapımcısı (armorer), silâhtar (armorer), silâh yapımcısı (armorer). (various references)

Ukrainian		каптенармус (armorer), власник збройового заводу (armorer), зброяр (armorer, gunsmith, weaponeer). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "armourer": armourers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-r-r-r-u"
	-1 letter: armorer.
	-2 letters: armour, armure, marrer, remora, roamer, roarer.
	-3 letters: amour, armer, armor, error, morae, murra, murre, ormer, rarer, rearm, rumor, urare.
	-4 letters: aero, arum, euro, mare, meou, mora, more, moue, mura, mure, murr, omer, orra, rare, ream, rear, roam, roar, roue, ruer, urea.
	-5 letters: amu, are, arm, ear, eau, emu, era, err, mae, mar, moa.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-o-r-r-r-u"
	+1 letter: armourers.
	+3 letters: remunerator.
	+4 letters: formularizer, remunerators, remuneratory.
	+5 letters: formularizers.
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