from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A bearer of armor for a knight; a squire.
noun A person entitled to bear heraldic arms.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun An armor-bearer to a knight; a squire; the second in rank of the aspirants to chivalry or knighthood.
noun One who has a right to armorial bearings: formerly used after the proper name by a person possessing such right, but no higher title: thus, “John Bolton, armiger,” is nearly equivalent to “John Bolton, gentleman.” In Shakspere, armigero.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun heraldry A person entitled to bear a coat of arms.
noun A squire carrying the armour of a knight.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a squire carrying the armor of a knight
noun a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin, from Latin, arms-bearing : arma, arms; see arm + gerere, to carry.]
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From Latin armiger ("carrying weapons or armour").
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