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English
Etymology
From Scots . See weapon and show.
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Noun
wapinschaw (plural wapinschaws)
- (Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.
1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, , volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, ; London: John Murray, , →OCLC, pages 35–36:The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]
- (Scotland, historical) A volunteer meeting or shooting competition inspired by this traditional exhibition of weapons.
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