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"equip" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often furnish (7 letters).
Definitions
provide with abilities or understanding
Word origin
From French équiper (“to supply, fit out”), originally said of a ship, Old French esquiper (“to embark”); of Germanic origin, most probably from Old Norse skipa (“to man (a ship)”), from Proto-Germanic *skipōną (“to ship, sail, embark”).
Used in a sentence
“1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.”
“A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.”
“More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Provide with gear”5 letters
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