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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