"arm-chest" meaning in English

See arm-chest in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: arm-chests [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} arm-chest (plural arm-chests)
  1. (historical, nautical) A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-arm-chest-en-noun-wiIWccYy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: nautical, transport

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "arm-chests",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "arm-chest (plural arm-chests)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 265:",
          "text": "This Disappointment chagreen’d the Ship’s Company, who were very intent upon their Market; which was reported to be an Arm-Chest full of Gold, and kept with three Keys;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, John Barrow, chapter 3, in The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty,, London: John Murray, page 87:",
          "text": "[…] as soon as he had taken charge of the deck, he saw Mr. Hayward, the mate of his watch, lie down on the arm-chest to take a nap;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Mardi, volume 1, New York: Harper, page 79:",
          "text": "[…] there being no line-and-sinker at hand, I sent Jarl to hunt them up in the arm-chest on the quarter-deck, where doubtless they must be kept.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 4:",
          "text": "[…] he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship."
      ],
      "id": "en-arm-chest-en-noun-wiIWccYy",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "portable",
          "portable"
        ],
        [
          "chest",
          "chest"
        ],
        [
          "weapons",
          "weapons"
        ],
        [
          "tool",
          "tool"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, nautical) A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "arm-chest"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "arm-chests",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "arm-chest (plural arm-chests)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 265:",
          "text": "This Disappointment chagreen’d the Ship’s Company, who were very intent upon their Market; which was reported to be an Arm-Chest full of Gold, and kept with three Keys;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, John Barrow, chapter 3, in The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty,, London: John Murray, page 87:",
          "text": "[…] as soon as he had taken charge of the deck, he saw Mr. Hayward, the mate of his watch, lie down on the arm-chest to take a nap;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Herman Melville, chapter 20, in Mardi, volume 1, New York: Harper, page 79:",
          "text": "[…] there being no line-and-sinker at hand, I sent Jarl to hunt them up in the arm-chest on the quarter-deck, where doubtless they must be kept.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 4:",
          "text": "[…] he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "portable",
          "portable"
        ],
        [
          "chest",
          "chest"
        ],
        [
          "weapons",
          "weapons"
        ],
        [
          "tool",
          "tool"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, nautical) A portable chest for storing weapons or tools on a ship."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "arm-chest"
}

Download raw JSONL data for arm-chest meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.