small arm

== English == === Noun === small arm (plural small arms) A firearm designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand. 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 10, p. 541,[4] […] 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. ==== Usage notes ==== In the singular, mainly used attributively (e.g. small-arm ammunition). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ====