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What is a call to arms?

What is a call to arms? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.
  2. (figuratively) An appeal to undertake a particular course of action or to support a specific cause.
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It wasn't the wordless lyrics of death of the wraith, but it was very close, and Jeremy had the sickening feeling that it was a call to arms.
The right is sounding the call to arms, while the left, as always, is offering excuses at best, and at worst, apologies.
She describes this binding of her brother's death with a call to arms as insincere, hypocritical and exploitative.
But despite the uncertainty, the troops quickly dismissed suggestions that the waiting game may leave them unprepared if the call to arms comes.
Predictably, she closes with the mandatory anti-establishment requirement, the desperate call to arms.
It was a tragic end to what started as a call to arms to defend the country's sovereignty, to perform a state duty.

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