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Definition of Side arm
1. Noun. A firearm that is held and fired with one hand.
Specialized synonyms: Automatic, Automatic Pistol, Derringer, Forty-five, Gat, Rod, Horse Pistol, Horse-pistol, Peacekeeper, Revolver, Six-gun, Six-shooter, Saturday Night Special, Semiautomatic, Semiautomatic Pistol, Verey Pistol, Very Pistol, Zip Gun
Generic synonyms: Firearm, Piece, Small-arm
Terms within: Gunstock, Stock
Derivative terms: Pistoleer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Side Arm
Literary usage of Side arm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Hip grasp standing side bending with raising of leg on other side. Arm bending
with alternate wide foot placing sideways, then arm stretching sideways with ..."
2. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Neck grasp oblique charge standing trunk twisting to same side. Arm flinging
sideways with alternate foot placing forward, and trunk twisting. ..."
3. Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women by Helen Frost, Charles Digby Wardlaw (1920)
"The chest pass can be changed to the "side-arm- to-side" with no movement ...
The side-arm pass is particularly fast, as it involves but a wrist and fore- ..."
4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"Adoral plates with two distal lobes, one of which embraces the lateral edge of
the oral shield and separates it from the side arm- plates, ..."
5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1878)
"The openings are on either side of each lower arm plate, and between it and the
side arm plate on either side, and they are for the passage outwards from ..."
6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"These were 25-ml glass- stoppered volumetric flasks with a glass side arm between
the stopper and the graduation mark. The side arm, about 20 mm in length ..."
7. The United Service (1905)
"Does the field artillery soldier absolutely need a side-arm in the field? ...
The side-arm is, therefore, for the field artillerist practically worthless. ..."
8. Technical Gas and Fuel Analysis by Alfred Holmes White (1920)
"The portion first calibrated is the capillary tube from the bottom of the stopcock
to the zero of the bulbed tube and the zero of the side arm. ..."
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