small-arm

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

small-arm - a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"firearm, pieceautoloader, self-loader - a firearm that reloads itselffiring pin - striker that ignites the charge by striking the primergun - a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)lock - a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gunmuzzle loader - an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzlehandgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arm - a firearm that is held and fired with one handrepeating firearm, repeater - a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloadingrifle - a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"riot gun - a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or deathscattergun, shotgun - firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short rangessights - an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrumentsmoothbore - a firearm that has no rifling.22, twenty-two - a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle)