| 单词 | rifle rag |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrifle rag a. attributive, with words denoting parts of, or articles connected with, a rifle (sense 2a), as rifle oil, rifle rag, rifle sling, etc. ΚΠ 1844 W. A. Foster in M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Legendary Div. II. 259 From rifle sling, one clear sharp ring sped from behind a tree. 1894 G. I. Putnam On Offensive 115 Then there was the litter of camp, and its scents—the smell of cooking, of teams, of flannel clothing, of rifle oil, of the earth. 1915 A. Bleneau Nurse's Story vii. 97 The men use vaseline and empty jam-jars filled with lumps of ham fat and a rifle rag as an improvised stove, on which to make their tea. a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 39 Knit in the webbing of the rifle-thong. 1989 P. Mayle Year in Provence (1990) 146 The stalls had stocked up for the season, and looked like small paramilitary depots: there were cartridge bandoliers and plaited leather rifle slings;..there were wilderness boots of the kind used by mercenaries parachuting into the Congo. 2005 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) (Nexis) 24 Mar. 30 We also get a list every day from each company and it might ask for batteries, rifle oil, toilet rolls, loaves of bread or a partridge in a pear tree. < as lemmas |
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