"arms bearer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Gisela Schneider-Herrmann, Edward Herring, The Samnites of the fourth century BC",
          "text": "The scene shows two hoplites to the right. A young arms bearer follows his superior.",
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        {
          "ref": "2003, Susan Freeman, Teaching Hot Topics: Jewish Values, Resources, and Activities",
          "text": "Study the passage below in which King Saul, about to lose a battle, asks his arms bearer to kill him.",
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          "ref": "2007, Sidnie White Crawford, Amnon Ben-Tor, \"Up to the gates of Ekron\": essays on the archaeology and history of the eastern Mediterranean in honor of Seymour Gitin",
          "text": "In this brief article, dedicated in friendship to Sy Gitin, I will discuss the job of the arms bearer and show that, as usual, my wife was right!",
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        "Alternative form of arms-bearer",
        "One who carries weapons for another."
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          "ref": "1996, Pinhas Inbari, The Palestinians between terrorism and statehood, page 239",
          "text": "What worried the arms bearers was that Saftawi had not worked out his program with Arafat, but with Egypt and Rabin, and briefed Arafat only later.",
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          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, page 141",
          "text": "He had called on arms bearers to go to the aid of their brethren in the Holy Land and to liberate the Christian holy sites from the heathen.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture & Civilization, Volume 4: Religion in the Shadows of Modernity",
          "text": "To distinguish them from other arms bearers, soldiers in the narrower sense have only been commonly referred to since the French Revolution.",
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        "An armed fighter."
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          "ref": "1996, Gisela Schneider-Herrmann, Edward Herring, The Samnites of the fourth century BC",
          "text": "The scene shows two hoplites to the right. A young arms bearer follows his superior.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2003, Susan Freeman, Teaching Hot Topics: Jewish Values, Resources, and Activities",
          "text": "Study the passage below in which King Saul, about to lose a battle, asks his arms bearer to kill him.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Sidnie White Crawford, Amnon Ben-Tor, \"Up to the gates of Ekron\": essays on the archaeology and history of the eastern Mediterranean in honor of Seymour Gitin",
          "text": "In this brief article, dedicated in friendship to Sy Gitin, I will discuss the job of the arms bearer and show that, as usual, my wife was right!",
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      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of arms-bearer",
        "One who carries weapons for another."
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          "ref": "1996, Pinhas Inbari, The Palestinians between terrorism and statehood, page 239",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2001, Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, page 141",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2011, Irving Louis Horowitz, Culture & Civilization, Volume 4: Religion in the Shadows of Modernity",
          "text": "To distinguish them from other arms bearers, soldiers in the narrower sense have only been commonly referred to since the French Revolution.",
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        "An armed fighter."
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