Usually means: Formal salute with a weapon.
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  1. present arms: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. present arms: Merriam-Webster
  3. present arms, present arms: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. present arms: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. present arms: Collins English Dictionary
  6. present arms: Wiktionary
  7. present arms: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. present arms: Dictionary.com
  9. Present Arms (Dad's Army radio episode), Present Arms (album), Present Arms (disambiguation), Present Arms (musical), Present arms (command): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. present arms: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (present arms)

noun:  (military) A position of salute in the manual of arms in which the gun is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.
verb:  (military) To adopt such a position.

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