Definition of "small arms" []

• Firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person; often held in the hand (noun)

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• "The day after the Battle of Port Republic he told his exhaustless quartermaster "Old John" Harman to collect the small arms scattered over the field."
• "In our time wars are usually waged in the countryside, where small arms are used in so-called low-intensity warfare, more often than not against defenseless peasant populations."
• "Morris was to dispatch eight trading cargoes to France; in return, Penet and Pliarne would ship fifteen thousand stands of small arms and a variety of other munitions, with more to follow."