rifle : Idioms & Phrases

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air rifle

  • noun a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air
    airgun; air gun.
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assault rifle

  • noun any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use
    assault gun.
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automatic rifle

  • noun light machine gun
    automatic; automatic rifle.
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browning automatic rifle

  • noun a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
    BAR.
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Flobert rifle

  • a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.
Webster 1913

garand rifle

  • noun a semiautomatic rifle
    Garand rifle; M-1; Garand.
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m-1 rifle

  • noun a semiautomatic rifle
    Garand rifle; M-1; Garand.
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machine rifle

  • noun light machine gun
    automatic; automatic rifle.
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minie rifle

Min"ie ri"fle
Definitions
  1. A rifle adapted to minie balls.
Webster 1913

national rifle association

  • noun a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government
    NRA.
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precision rifle

  • noun an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away
    precision rifle.
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rifle ball

  • noun a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
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rifle butt

  • noun the butt end of a rifle
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rifle grenade

  • noun a grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle
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Rifle pit

  • (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.
Webster 1913

rifle range

  • noun the distance that a rifle bullet will carry
    rifle range.
    • the target was out of rifle range
  • noun a range where people can practice shooting rifles
    • during the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges
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rifle shot

  • noun the distance that a rifle bullet will carry
    rifle range.
    • the target was out of rifle range
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Shunt rifling

  • rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
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sniper rifle

  • noun an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away
    precision rifle.
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twenty-two rifle

  • noun a .22-caliber rifle
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