Picture a room where the weapons are kept: rows of them on shelves, each in its place, waiting for the moment someone needs one. Reach in, take what the job needs, put it back. That one room is the whole word. Sometimes the attention is on the room, sometimes on the things inside it, sometimes on the workshop that made them — and sometimes the weapons on the shelf are not weapons at all, but the skills a person can reach for.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces armoury through Middle English armerie and Anglo-Norman armurrie to armure ('arms, armour') plus the ending -ie, so the word began as 'the whole business of arms' rather than as one room. That breadth is why it still covers the store, the collection and the workshop at once.
資料把 armoury 追到中古英語 armerie，再往前是盎格魯-諾曼語 armurrie，由 armure（武器、盔甲）加字尾 -ie 組成。它一開始指的是「跟武器有關的那一整套事情」，而不是單一個房間。這正好說明它為什麼同時能指庫房、整批裝備，還有製造的工坊。
Wiktionary entry supplied in evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1167959181): "From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure ('arms, armor') + -ie ('-y'). By surface analysis, armour + -y."
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
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armourynoun/ˈɑɹməɹi/
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A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
- Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing or defective fastenings.
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A collection of weapons and materiel.
- 3
A place where arms are made.
- 4
The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
- (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.
- He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…]
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Heraldry.
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rareA family or group of aardvarks.
- A family of aardvarks, or an armoury of aardvarks, were regular visitors to the waterhole
- Jonathan Risbridger, senior zookeeper at Whipsnade Zoo, said: “Nacho and Tafari are a great addition to our family, or armoury, of aardvarks here at Whipsnade Zoo. Nacho is actually returning to Whipsnade, as she was one the first ever aardvarks to live at our zoo”.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。