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shoulder arms
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Meaning shoulder arms meaning
What does shoulder arms mean?
shoulder arms
verb
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(intransitive, military) Of a soldier at drill, to place a rifle on the right shoulder, with the forearm parallel to the ground and the hand holding the butt.
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(intransitive, cricket) To deliberately lift the bat out of the path of the ball when it is judged to be missing the wicket.
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