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[ahr-suh-nl, ahrs-nuhl]

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noun

a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.

a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.

a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.

a collection or supply of anything; store: He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.

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1500–10; (< Middle French ) < Italian arzanale < Upper Italian (Venetian ) arzanà dockyard < Arabic dār ṣināʿah workshop (literally, house of handwork); initial d probably taken as a form of the preposition di from

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arsenal (ˈɑːsən^əl)

—n
1.	a store for arms, ammunition, and other military items
2.	a workshop or factory that produces munitions
3.	a store of anything regarded as weapons: an arsenal of destructive arguments

[C16: from Italian arsenale dockyard, from the original Venetian arsenal dockyard and naval store, from Arabic dār sīn`ah, from dār house + sīn`ah manufacture]

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arsenal

c.150o, "dockyard," from It. arzenale, from Arabic dar as-sina'ah "workshop," lit. "house of manufacture," from dar "house" + sina'ah "art, craft, skill," from sana'a "he made." Applied by the Venetians to a large wharf in their city, which was the earliest meaning in Eng. Sense of "public place for

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making or storing weapons and ammunition" is from 1570s. The London football club (1886) was named for the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where the original players worked.

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