Meaning of port arms | Babel Free

Definitions

The position of a weapon carried diagonally in front of the body.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I think we have to bear in mind that he'd been wrestled with, shot at, been in a wild chase, and now he's being confronted with a person carrying an automatic weapon at port arms.”

“At last the battery cover snapped down. Howard strode briskly back through the living room with the hedge-clippers held at port arms.”

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