rifleman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
rifleman (plural riflemen)
- A soldier trained to use a rifle as a primary weapon.
- The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.
- 2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 62:
- Anil Gurung joined the Army in 2006 as a rifleman with the 2nd Royal Gurkha Regiment.
- A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.
- She was quite the rifleman and could pick off a squirrels with a .22 from across the field with amazing accuracy.
- A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.
Translations[edit]
soldier
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person skilled in the use of a rifle
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Acanthisitta chloris
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