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small arm

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A firearm designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 10, p. 541, [...] the first of Barrios’s transports, one of our own ships at that, steamed right in, and, ranging close alongside, opened a small-arm fire without as much preliminaries as a hail.

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