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/sˈɑrdʒənt æt ɑrmz/ Listen

Sergeant at arms

noun

An officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands. Synonym: serjeant-at-arms.

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... Democrats. The Chicago convention finally succeeded in absorbing these malcontents, as well as a group of socialist delegates and representatives of various labor organizations who asked to be admitted. Dennis Kearney, the notorious sand-lot agitator of California was made chief sergeant at arms, and Susan B. Anthony was allowed to give a suffrage speech. The platform differed from earlier Greenback documents in that it contained no denunciation of the Resumption Act. That was now a dead issue, for on January 1, 1879, resumption became an accomplished ...

— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck

... place on the Irish benches, I was sitting on one of the chairs close by the Sergeant at Arms, just inside the bar of the House, so that I saw at once both sides of the assembly: there were no parties that day. The Foreign Secretary's speech, intensely English, with all the quality that is ...

— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn

Words linked to "Sergeant at arms" : serjeant-at-arms, officer, general assembly, legislature, officeholder, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body