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Fire-arm. World English Historical Dictionary

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Fire-arm. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Fire-arm Usually pl. [f. FIRE sb. + ARM sb.2] A weapon from which missiles are propelled by the combustion of gunpowder or other explosive. (The sing. is late and rare in use.)

1 1646.  Evelyn, Diary. Here [Brescia] I purchas’d of old Lazarino Cominazzo my fine carabine, which cost me 9 pistoles, this Citty being famous for these fire-armes.

2 1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. (1702), I. 92. Though They had the possession of all the King’s Forts and Magazines there, nor had they Ammunition to supply their few Fire-Arms.

3 1719.  De Foe, Crusoe (1840), I. xvii. 331. I left them my fire-arms; viz. five muskets, three fowling-pieces, and three swords.

4 1840.  Thackeray, Paris Sk.-bk. (1872), 197. All of a sudden he heard the report of a fire-arm.

5 1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., III. 267. Battles are more and more fought out with fire-arms.

6   Hence Fire-armed ppl. a., provided with fire-arms.

7 1869.  Petherick, Trav., I. 138–9. The negroes fought valiantly for a time; but having only clubs and lances, they were soon overpowered by the firearmed Arabs.

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