E*quip"ment (?), n. [Cf. F. 'equipement. See Equip.]
1.
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
Burke.
The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt.
Hume.
2.
Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Armed and dight,
In the equipments of a knight.
Longfellow.
© Webster 1913.