order arms

1. 1.

   a position in the manual of arms; the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground; often used as a command

   Broaderposition

   Part ofmanual of arms

Questions about order arms

What does order arms mean?

order arms means "a position in the manual of arms; the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground; often used as a command".

Is order arms a common word?

order arms is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.