Definition & Meaning | English word MASTER-AT-ARMS

Definitions of MASTER-AT-ARMS

1. An officer in a fraternal or similar organization charged with maintaining order.
2. (UK, Navy) A warrant officer or chief petty officer responsible for discipline aboard a naval ship.
3. (UK, Army) A commissioned officer responsible for overseeing all fitness training in subordinate units.
4. (US, Navy) A petty officer responsible for law enforcement, antiterrorism, force protection, and expeditionary warfare.

Examples of Using MASTER-AT-ARMS in a Sentence

• And be it further enacted, That there shall be employed, in each of the said ships, the following warrant-officers, who shall be appointed by the President of the United States, to wit; one sailing-master, one purser, one boatswain, one gunner, one sail-maker, one carpenter, and eight midshipmen; and the following petty officers, who shall be appointed by the captains of the ships, respectively, in which they are to be employed, viz: two master's mates, one captain's clerk, two boatswain's mates, one cockswain, one sail-maker's mate, two gunner's mates, one yeoman of the gun room, nine quarter-gunners (and for the four larger ships) two additional quarter-gunners, two carpenter's mates, one armourer, one steward, one cooper, one master-at-arms, and one cook.
• Machine guns were fired as well as rocket-propelled grenades at the cruise ship, and the remains of an RPG's rocket motor wedged itself in the wall of a room No passengers were injured, but the ship's master-at-arms, Som Bahadur Gurung was hit by shrapnel whilst attempting to combat the raiders with a long-range acoustic device (LRAD).
• Center for Security Forces, headquartered at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story, is responsible for the promulgation of the Navy's Anti-terrorism, Expeditionary warfare and Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training, as well as the initial training of the Navy's Master-at-arms rate.
• File:US Navy 030212-N-8937A-004 Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Donald Reinhart, assigned to Fleet Activities Sasebo Security Department, fires off blank rounds of ammunition during a training exercise with his military working dog, Goof,.
• The others include Boatswain's Mate (BM), Quartermasters (QM), Master-at-Arms (MA), and Yeoman (YN).
• MESF Sailor ratings range from Master-at-Arms, Boatswain's Mates, to supporting rates of Engineman, Hospital Corpsmen, to Information Technology Specialists.
• There are numerous divergences from the source material: in the books Lord Baelish is sent by the council to negotiate with the Tyrells only after Renly is dead; Theon's departure from Pyke is not shown, and Dagmer Cleftjaw is a scarred old master-at-arms who is fond of Theon because Cleftjaw trained him when Theon was a boy; Arya is a scullion instead of a cupbearer and is not able to interact with Lord Tywin; and the character of Xaro Xhoan Daxos has been drastically changed making him a black heterosexual of humble origins and giving him a vault that is never mentioned in the books.
• Sanborn, master-at-arms of Fairfield from 1837 to 1839, accused the ship's officers, including Boarman, of complicity in illegal coltings and floggings with cat o' nine tails by not reporting them in the ship's logbook.
• The Chapel of Nossa Senhora de Lurdes (Our Lady of Lourdes) was constructed by the Canto e Castro family, and is the resting-place of Pero Anes do Canto (who died in 1556), Master-at-Arms and empersarial responsible for the cultivation of Verdelho wines in the archipelago, flanked by the crests of the Cantos and Castro families.
• Captain (Quarter-Master) Thomas James, Extra Regimentally Employed List, Master-at-Arms, Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot.
• The women were: Chief Engineman Patricia Cooper, Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Brittney Hellwig, Master-at-Arms Seaman Brianna Tran, and Master-at-Arms Seaman Angela Evans.
• This includes sailors in the Master-at-Arms rating, commissioned officers in the LDO and CWO field, DoD police officers, contracted guards, and sailors who have completed the required security force training.

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