light-armed, a.
[light adv.1]
Bearing light armour or arms.
| 1618 Bolton Florus iii. x. (1630) 205 Hee with light armed bands of Souldiers got into Gall. 1772 Ann. Reg. 234 We..Are but the light-arm'd rangers on the scout. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles iii. x, England's light-arm'd vessels ride, Not distant far, the waves of Clyde. |
| fig. 1645 Milton Colast. 2, I still was waiting, when these light-arm'd refuters would have don pelting. 1728 Pope Dunc. i. 306 Lead on my sons, Light-arm'd with Points, Antitheses, and Puns. |