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Rifleman
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 a male soldier whose weapon is a rifle wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a man skilled in the use of a rifle wordnet
- 5 A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.
Etymology
From rifle + -man.
See also for "rifleman"
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