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Definition of Lightly-armed
1. Adjective. Armed with light weapons.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightly-armed
Literary usage of Lightly-armed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"After this speech he ordered them to take some repose. at the head of his infantry
lightly armed, and his royal regiments marched round the plain in which ..."
2. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"All mounted soldiers that are lightly armed and accoutered for active and desultory
... A soldier who serves in the light horse, and is lightly armed. ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"And they came on besides at a good distance one from the other, that they might
not be betrayed by the clashing of their arms ; and were but lightly armed, ..."
4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... and fome Trallians and Cretans lightly armed. Sixteen elephants which the
Romans had were placed behind the army by way On the day of the battle the ..."
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