needment
nounEtymology From need + -ment.
1
Archaic Something needed or wanted.
2
Archaic, In plural outfit; necessary luggage
- His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind, His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical Memoranda:
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- Rarely, 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: