Rifleman

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  • noun. A soldier equipped with a rifle.
  • noun. One who shoots a rifle skillfully.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A man armed with a rifle; a man skilled in shooting with the rifle; military, formerly, a member of a body armed with the rifle when most of the infantry had muskets.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A soldier armed with a rifle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A soldier trained to use a rifle as their primary weapon.
  • noun. A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.
  • noun. A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.
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  • noun. someone skilled in the use of a rifle
  • noun. a soldier whose weapon is a rifle
  • Word Usage
    "It should be remembered that a unit of a rifle regiment is known as rifleman, not private; we like the term rifleman, and feel justly indignant when a wrong appellation plays skittles with our rank."
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