The great champion of England, who at the coronation of the sovereign throws down his gauntlet, and defies all comers. Held at the coronations of George IV., William IV., and Victoria, by a naval officer, a middy in 1821.
·vt To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to <<Protec...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(1 Sam. 17:4, 23), properly "the man between the two," denoting the position of Goliath between the ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary