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- soldiers grabbing their arms and helmets and heading into battle
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- derringer,
- forty-five
- (or .45),
- gat
- [slang],
- handgun,
- pistol,
- revolver,
- rod
- [slang],
- roscoe
- [slang],
- sidearm,
- six-gun,
- six-shooter,
- zip gun
- blunderbuss,
- breechloader,
- culverin,
- fieldpiece,
- firelock,
- flintlock,
- harquebus
- (or arquebus),
- matchlock,
- musket,
- rifle,
- shotgun,
- smoothbore,
- twenty-two
- (or .22)
arm
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- a company that needs to beef up its marketing arm if it wants to compete in today's business world
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- this arm of the Atlantic is surprisingly peaceful, as the stronger ocean currents do not reach this far
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- Maine has so many long, narrow arms that jut out into the ocean that early coastal settlers found it much easier to travel by sea
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- few criminals manage to permanently escape the long arm of the law
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arm
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of arm (Entry 3 of 3)
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“Arm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arm. Accessed 28 Feb. 2020.
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The first known use of arm was before the 12th century
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