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WAPENSHAW (M.E. for " weapon-show")

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 304 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAPENSHAW (M.E. for " weapon-show")  , a periodical See also:muster or See also:review of troops formerly held in every See also:district in See also:Scotland, the See also:object having been to satisfy the military chiefs that the arms of their retainers were in See also:good See also:condition . See also:Scott's Old Mortality gives a description of one . The name is still given to See also:rifle meetings held annually at See also:Aberdeen and other places in Scotland .

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