Arms and Badges

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Arms noun - Weapons considered collectively.

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Badges and arms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Badges" instead a noun "Arms".

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Arms and badges are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Arms" instead a noun "Badges".

Badges worn by police officers have been proven to be able to stop small arms fire: Here's a story of a cop saved by his badge.

Source: Pocket Protector
The idea that a family has a badge may be influenced by the Scottish clan system, where all the clans do have badges or crests—there being little difference, as the crest of the clan chief's arms is inevitably the badge of the clan, and in Scotland the terms are interchangeable.

Source: Useful Notes / Knight Fever
There's serious friction between the Night Watch (once a band of incompetents, now a semi-serious police force) and the Day Watch (basically a gang with badges) in Men at Arms, especially when Night Watch officers discover a body during the hours of daylight.

Source: Jurisdiction Friction

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