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ˈsmall-arms
[f. small a. + arm n.2 2.]
Fire-arms capable of being carried in the hand, as contrasted with ordnance.
1710Lond. Gaz. No. 2702/2 Powder, small Ball, and small Arms. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. viii. 379 Her topmen..made prodigious havock with their small arms. 1817Parl. Deb. 756 During the war no less than three millions of small arms had been manufactured there for the use of the Allies. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 267/2 The fire of modern small-arms has become so infinitely more deadly.
attrib.1858Bright Sp., Reform 10 Dec., The Government small-arms establishment at Enfield. 1905H. Newman in E. Candler Unveiling of Lhasa x. 192 Then followed several hours of cannonading and small-arms fire. |