Anagrams of: WEAPONING

• an article deposited as security

• a person used by another to gain an end

• (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank

• borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped

• the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb

• scrape with the paws

• touch clumsily

• any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

• a means of persuading or arguing

• the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal

• first or beginning

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

• becoming open or being made open

• the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

• the act of opening something

• opportunity especially for employment or promotion

• the initial part of the introduction

• a possible alternative

• an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

• the first of a series of actions

• a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun

• (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases

• a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent

• look with amazement; look stupidly