small-arm

Dan had gone through some small-arm drill in the fortnight he spent at

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

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.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

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.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

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.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

The enemy approached within small-arm fire of the lines, and sent in a flag, and the garrison capitulated in an hour.

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

Army of the Potomac is ten days 'subsistence and forage, and sixty rounds of small-arm ammunition -- the men carrying in addition a number of days' rations, and a number of rounds, upon their persons.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Every conceivable sort and kind of small-arm ammunition lay scattered around on the veld, and those who were keen on curios of this description made quite a collection of full and empty cases.

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer

They must have been short of small-arm ammunition and bombs, because on that last strafing they cleared out and stayed.

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

Blockhouse Fort and Haslar on the Gosport side of the water, belonging to the _Saint Vincent_, and which is used for drilling the boys in marching and small-arm instruction.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

There, as they knew, the skipper took jolly good care to serve us out full purser's allowance of drill if there was nothing else stirring; for it was beating to quarters, or small-arm exercise, or manning the big guns, and playing all such fancy tricks with us when he had no better work to keep us employed with between watches.

The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace