Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

small arm

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English

Syllables: smal-l- arm
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"[…] 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 […]”"
"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."

Inflected Forms

small arms (plural)

Phrases

side arm white arm

Frequently Paired Words

side arm white arm

Questions

What does small arm mean?: A firearm designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.

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