| 单词 | rifle team |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrifle team a. attributive, with the sense ‘using or armed with rifles’, as rifle artillery, rifle association, rifle brigade, rifle club, rifle team, etc. ΚΠ 1820 Army List Jan. 42 Rifle Brigade. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 12/2 In 1816 it was formed into the present rifle-brigade. 1852 C. Patmore in Mem. & Corr. (1900) II. 176 My whole time is now absorbed in the business of a Rifle Club. 1861 Ld. Palmerston Let. 30 Dec. in Ld. Cowley Paris Embassy during Second Empire (1928) xi. 234 They still attack in columns which would be blown to pieces by the French rifle artillery long before they could come into contact with their opponents. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 456/2 Nearly every county..forming a rifle association. 1900 R. Kipling Let. 24 July in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) xiii. 315 We've started a rifle-club in the village... We've got a 1,000 yards range among the downs. 1967 N. Mailer Why are we in Vietnam? v. 87 He'd always gone in for handloading his cartridges, but when he got back, he was abruptly become the cartridge expert in his rifle club. 2001 Times 8 June 25/2 A distinguished rifle shot, he captained the Great Britain rifle team and represented Scotland for fifty years. < as lemmas |
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