| 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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