See long arm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "long arms",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "long arm (plural long arms)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 23 16 19",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Tools",
"orig": "en:Tools",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A pole tool used for handling things too far away to reach."
],
"id": "en-long_arm-en-noun-juI8JckJ",
"links": [
[
"pole",
"pole"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 52 20 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 53 17 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 60 15 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 62 26 9",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Firearms",
"orig": "en:Firearms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
12
]
],
"text": "the long arm of the law",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Influence; far-reaching power."
],
"id": "en-long_arm-en-noun-en:influence_or_far_reaching_power",
"links": [
[
"Influence",
"influence"
],
[
"far-reaching",
"far-reaching"
],
[
"power",
"power"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Influence; far-reaching power."
],
"senseid": [
"en:influence or far-reaching power"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 57 43",
"word": "long-arm jurisdiction"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 57 43",
"word": "long arm of the law"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 57 43",
"word": "long arm statute"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gun with a long barrel, such as a rifle or shotgun."
],
"id": "en-long_arm-en-noun-en:Q1046481",
"links": [
[
"gun",
"gun"
],
[
"rifle",
"rifle"
],
[
"shotgun",
"shotgun"
]
],
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"alternative"
],
"word": "longarm"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 57 43",
"word": "armedness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 57 43",
"word": "longarmed"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 57 43",
"word": "secular arm"
}
],
"senseid": [
"en:Q1046481"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "long gun"
}
],
"wikidata": [
"Q1046481"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A quilting machine that holds the fabric stationary on long rollers but allows the sewing mechanism to move around the surface of the fabric."
],
"id": "en-long_arm-en-noun-Z4owyZ9K",
"links": [
[
"quilting",
"quilting"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-long arm.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-au-long_arm.ogg/En-au-long_arm.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-au-long_arm.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "long arm"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Firearms",
"en:Tools"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "long-arm jurisdiction"
},
{
"word": "long arm of the law"
},
{
"word": "long arm statute"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "long arms",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "long arm (plural long arms)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "armedness"
},
{
"word": "longarmed"
},
{
"word": "secular arm"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A pole tool used for handling things too far away to reach."
],
"links": [
[
"pole",
"pole"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
12
]
],
"text": "the long arm of the law",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Influence; far-reaching power."
],
"links": [
[
"Influence",
"influence"
],
[
"far-reaching",
"far-reaching"
],
[
"power",
"power"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Influence; far-reaching power."
],
"senseid": [
"en:influence or far-reaching power"
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A gun with a long barrel, such as a rifle or shotgun."
],
"links": [
[
"gun",
"gun"
],
[
"rifle",
"rifle"
],
[
"shotgun",
"shotgun"
]
],
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"alternative"
],
"word": "longarm"
}
],
"senseid": [
"en:Q1046481"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "long gun"
}
],
"wikidata": [
"Q1046481"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A quilting machine that holds the fabric stationary on long rollers but allows the sewing mechanism to move around the surface of the fabric."
],
"links": [
[
"quilting",
"quilting"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-long arm.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/En-au-long_arm.ogg/En-au-long_arm.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-au-long_arm.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "long arm"
}
Download raw JSONL data for long arm meaning in English (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.