Meanings
plural needments
- archaicin pluraloutfit; necessary luggage
His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind, His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC2 more examples
We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief
1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical MemorandaRarely, indeed, did it occur to this man of great resource to enter a shop like anyone else and pay down at the counter what was demanded. His domestic supplies of food and liquor, his clothing, his casual needments, were all procured through irregular channels, by the exercise of wonder-craft, experience, and audacity.
1895, George Gissing, Nobodies at Home: Humble Felicity
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Cite this entry
needment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/needment
“needment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/needment. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “needment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/needment.
Source: needment on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.