to prepare / to furnish

mounting, equipping, wearing

mount, equip, wear

a piece of armor or clothing for protecting the back of the hand, such as a glove or gauntlet / (Anatomy) the back of the hand

a fight, battle, or by extension, a war / a match, competition, contest, or race / any conflict or strife / (archaic) an army or military; troops

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(weaponry) a Japanese hand weapon or climbing tool, whereby metal hooks are strapped to the back of the forearm and hand

(idiomatic) match between persons equal in shrewdness