Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A petty officer assigned to maintain order.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a man-of-war, a petty officer of the first class; the chief police officer of the ship, whose duties are to take charge of all prisoners, and to keep order on the berth-deck. His assistants are called
ship's corporals .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) The senior petty officer of a ship, responsible for discipline aboard the ship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, Navy A
warrant officer orchief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship. - noun UK, Army A
commissioned officer responsible for overseeing all fitness training in subordinate units. - noun US, Navy A
petty officer responsible forlaw enforcement ,antiterrorism , force protection, andexpeditionary warfare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the senior petty officer; responsible for discipline aboard ship
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Examples
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A brisk walk of a mile and a half down a wide tunnel moderately crowded with traffic: travelers, porters, an occasional pushcart, a dignified scientist swinging in a litter borne by four husky orderlies and preceded by his master-at-arms to clear the common crew out of the way.
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But he inquired nervously of Alan as Alan retrieved his weapon from the master-at-arms, "You're a good knife?"
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He was halted by the master-at-arms on watch outside Narby's suite, cuffed around a bit for his insistence on entering, referred to a boredly unsympathetic clerk who took his name and told him to return to his village and wait to be summoned.
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Narby's knife was at his belt; Alan was painfully aware that he had been required to deposit his own with the master-at-arms.
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Catelyn and Ser Rodrik arrive in Kings Landing and take rooms at an inn; Ser Rodrik goes to find Ser Aron Santagar, the Red Keep's master-at-arms, to ask him if he knows the dagger.
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Ser Rodrik is Winterfell's master-at-arms, and Donachie also played the master-at-arms in TITANTIC.
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A Navy master-at-arms, he wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution.
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Schnell was serving as a master-at-arms assigned to
Gulf War II 2007
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Recently, navy master-at-arms have been integrated into the guard force.
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Donal reproaches Jon for taking advantage of his superior training, pointing out that none of the other boys had the opportunity to study swordsmanship under a great castle's master-at-arms.
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