Sentence examples for small-arm from inspiring English sources

There are also small-arm grenade rounds, shaped like bullets but of much greater diameter (usually 40 mm).

In general, projectiles less than 20 mm or.60 inch in diameter are classified as small-arm, and larger calibres are considered artillery.

A large assortment of matchlocks, suspended from the walls above them, resembled those used by the primitive small-arm men in England".

Small arm, any handheld firearm.

A flintlock small arm was slightly faster to load than a matchlock, if the flint itself did not require adjustment.

"It is amazing they see the small arm but not the big kick with all the officials they've got now," said the Scot.

The family had to crop him out of a family reunion shot to get a photo without a small arm or leg draped around him.

The result was the matchlock harquebus, the dominant military small arm of the 15th century and the direct ancestor of the modern musket.

But he said he felt blindsided by the Independent Television Service — the small arm of public television that funds and distributes independent films — for not giving him sufficient advance warning of the documentary's contents.

It's arguably true that games journalism, a small arm of the wider entertainment journalism sector, needs to mature; it needs to make clear codes of conduct and to remain transparent to readers.

Mark Liebenow pictures it like this: a candidate's name or a party slogan is emblazoned on the panel, which attaches with a small arm to the temple of a pair of glasses.