light arm

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   a rifle or pistol

   Broaderweapon

Questions about light arm

What does light arm mean?

light arm means "a rifle or pistol".

Is light arm a common word?

light arm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.