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UNDER ARMS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does under arms mean?
• UNDER ARMS (adverb)
The adverb UNDER ARMS has 1 sense:
1. armed and prepared for fighting
Familiarity information: UNDER ARMS used as an adverb is very rare.
Context examples
Aylward, who stood in the front row of the archers with Simon, big John, and others of the Company, had been criticising the proceedings from the commencement with the ease and freedom of a man who had spent his life under arms and had learned in a hard school to know at a glance the points of a horse and his rider.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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