armour-bearer

noun

1. history a retainer who carried the arms or armour of a warrior

Example Sentences

A single confidant and companion was all that he thought of—his armour-bearer, or aide-de-camp.

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Might he not work that day by Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and, after all, only produce a new chapter in that history which had already shown so many wonderful interpositions?

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When inquiry was made as to who were absent, Jonathan and his armour-bearer alone were missed.

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The Jews have a tradition that he was Saul’s armour-bearer at the battle of Gilboa, and that the sword by which he and his master fell, was no other than that which had slain the priests of the Lord.

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It was something that his armour-bearer neither flinched nor remonstrated.

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