arsenal
/ˈɑɹsənəl/ noun C1- A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
- A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
- A store or supply of anything.
- Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship. · He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.
Plural arsenals
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He was twenty-seven years of age, unmarried, and a clerk at Woolwich Arsenal.”
Arsenal—technical papers—Brother Mycroft, the chain is complete.
The plans, which are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the working of the whole, are kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglar-proof doors and windows.
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