Contextualizebeta

small arm

noun

Definitions

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

    • […] about break of day, we heard from the Town a small Arm discharged, and after that a Drum beating a travailler.
    • If any Man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be marroon’d, with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm, and Shot.
    • “Men are all well drilled, sir,” continued the captain, “and have regular small-arm practice […]”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for small arm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA