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rifleman
/ ˈraɪfəlmən /
noun
- a person skilled in the use of a rifle, esp a soldier
- Also calledtitipounamu a wren, Acanthisitta chloris , of New Zealand: family Xenicidae See also bush wren
Other Words From
- rifle·man·ship noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
If Rifleman is rather a tragic character, his ally Alexander “Babay” Mozhayev is more comic.
He was assigned as a rifleman to Fox Company, Second Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment.
The idea here is to permit each rifleman to believe that he is not a killer.
The miller was glad that a rifleman from his own canton should prove the best shot, and should have won universal applause.
The rifleman kept running, seeming not to hear him in his panic.
Mr. Simon Uhlmann presented a bronze figure of a rifleman, as second annual prize.
While making for this point, a sail was sighted, which proved to be the British brig-sloop "Rifleman."
The glasses crashed one after another like gelatine balls hit by the bullets of an expert rifleman.
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