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单词 to port arms
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to port arms
2. transitive. Military. To carry or hold (a weapon) with both hands in a raised position; spec. to carry (a rifle) diagonally across and close to the body, with the barrel by the left shoulder. Chiefly in to port arms (cf. port arms n.).
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trailc1550
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to order arms1678
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1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 23 Charging [with Pikes]..Port over-hand. Port vnder-hand.
1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 191 And have caused my Pike-men to trail their Pikes, that they might not have been seen by the Enemy; which if shoulder'd, or ported, they would be.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 147/2 Port your pike, is in three motions to take it by the But end, with your right hand, and beare the point forward aloft.
1795 Standing Orders for Norwich 49 Open Pans, port Arms—inspect the Pans and Locks—carry Arms, shut Pans, order Arms, draw Ramrods.
1803 Compl. Drill Serjeant 18 In some regiments it is called porting arms or preparing for the charge.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 36 Officers recover swords with the first motion, and ‘Port’ them at the second.
1877 Field Exercise Infantry (rev. ed.) 374 On the approach of any person, the sentry will port Arms, and call out Halt, who comes there?
1976 A. Price War Game i. iv. 87 At the last moment they port their pikes—hold them up diagonally across their bodies—and then smack into each other.
1985 P. Hamilton West Pier I. i. 12 In the afternoon they were..made..to shoulder arms, present arms, port arms, form fours, right dress, stand at ease, etc.
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