Rifle

Definitions

1. A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
2. A rifleman.
   dated, plural-normally
3. An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
4. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Equivalents

Examples

“Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match⟳, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride⟳.”

“In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have⟳ been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.”

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