Loophole: alternatives and connections

To provide one's self with arms, weapons, or means of attack or resistance; to take arms.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Bearing arms or weapons.

Destitute of arms or weapons.

That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy.…

An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides,…

One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…

A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent b…

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and p…

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the expo…

To deprive of arms; to take away the weapons of; to deprive of the means of attack or defense; to render defenseless.

To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows…