Rifleman

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a male soldier whose weapon is a rifle wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    a man skilled in the use of a rifle wordnet
  5. 5
    A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.

Etymology

From rifle + -man.

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