armhole

The arm-pit. "Tickling is most in the soles of the feet, and under the arm-holes, and on the sides. The cause is the thinne of the skin in those parts, joined with the rarene of being touched there. -Bacon : Nat. Hist. In Ezek. xiii. 18, the word rendered "armhole" should probably be translated "fore arm, cubit," though some make it the wrist. arm-in-arm, adv. & a. With one's arm interlocked with that of another; arm-and arm. "When arm - in - arm we went along." Tennyson: The Miller's Daughter. arm's-end, s. A metaphor derived from boxing, in which the weaker man may overcome the stronger, if he can keep him from closing. ( Lit. & fig .) "For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at the arm's -end."-Shakesp. As You Like It , ii. 6.