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Equip vs Besatcheled - What's the difference?

equip | besatcheled |

As a verb equip

is to furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc; -- said especially of ships and of troops dryden.

As an adjective besatcheled is

(rare) carrying or equipped with a satchel.

equip

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
    • Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
  • To dress up; to array; accouter.
    • The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.
  • To prepare (someone) with a skill

    • Related terms

    * equipment * equipage

    Anagrams

    * (l), ----

    besatcheled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Carrying or equipped with a satchel.
  • * 1807 : Oliver Oldschool, Esq., The Port Folio , volume IV, page 38 (Smith & Maxwell)
    • This is not the incoherent rant, the waking dream of a schoolboy. No, it is the true and genuine sublime. Imagination cannot add a circumstance to heighten the grandeur, surprise, and horrour of the picture. The fracas, or hurry and tumult of the action in the foreground, the solemnity at a distance; Jupiter attacking the Greek fleets with fire and sword; the able captains mounted on artillery, scattering defeat and dismay : and, lastly, the poor discomfited pigmies, with Thrale’s besatcheled widow at their head, flying, lying, dying !