wapinschaw
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Scots [Term?]. See weapon and show.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwapinschaw (plural wapinschaws)
- (Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
- 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 35–36:
- The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]
- (Scotland, historical) A volunteer meeting or shooting competition inspired by this traditional exhibition of weapons.
Translations
editexhibition of weapons
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References
edit- “wapinschaw”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.