Definition of "small-arm" [small-arm]

• A portable gun (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Dan had gone through some small-arm drill in the fortnight he spent at"
• "This curious sheath "-- he pointed to a cylindrical jacket around part of the rifle barrel --" is a Coulomb silencer, which reduces a small-arm report almost to a whisper."
• "By daybreak they had gathered together about eighty marines, eighty pikemen, and one hundred and eighty small-arm seamen; all the survivors of those who had made good their landing."