equipment (ekwipment)

[F. équipement, The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume , Works, vi. 454. 2. Anything that is used in or provided for equipping, as furniture, habiliments, warlike apparatus, nece aries for an expedition or for a voyage, or the knowledge and skill nece ary for a vocation: as, the equipments of a hotel, a ship, or a railroad; the equipment of a man for the ministry, or for the law. The several talents which the orator employs, the splendid equipment of Demosthenes, of Æschines, deserve a special enumeration. Emerson, Eloquence. The Greeks generally showed themselves excellent soldiers; their equipment made them at once superior to their neighbors. Von Ranke , Univ. Hist. (trans.), p. 132. Specifically-3. pl . Milit . , certain of the nece aries for officers and soldiers, as horses, horse appointments, and accoutrements; the clothes, arms, etc., of a soldier, or certain furnishings for artillery. Thus, the cannoneers' equipments are the priming-wire, vent-punch, thumb-stall, primer-pouch, cartridge-pouch or haversack, and hau e-pouch. The equipments for a field-piece include the vent-cover, paulin, tompion, and strap; the other articles used in the service of cannon are called implements . - Equipment com pany, a form of organization common in railroad busine , for the purpose of furnishing the rolling-stock or equipment of a railroad or railroads by creating a car trust (which see, under trust ), and transferring the contract to do so to the trustee as security for bonds to be i ued by the equipment company to raise funds for the purpose of providing the equipment. = Syn. 2 and 3. Ac coutrement, rigging, gear, outfit.