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Webster 1913 Edition
Rifleman
Ri′fle-man
,Noun.
pl.
Rifleman
. (Mil.)
A soldier armed with a rifle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rifleman
RI'FLEMAN
,Noun.
Definition 2024
rifleman
rifleman
English
Noun
rifleman (plural riflemen)
- A soldier trained to use a rifle as their primary weapon.
- The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.
- 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
soldier
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a small New Zealand bird
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