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单词 rifle-shooter
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rifle-shooter
a. Instrumental and objective, as rifle-firing, rifle-shooter, rifle twirling; rifle-carrier, etc.
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1796 Universal Politician Sept. 215 Adjutant General Sornet..attacked the enemy by rifle firing.
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 12/2 Rifle-firing in extended order is performed by sound of bugle.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. 167 Some Brummagem rifle-manufacturer about the period of the American War.
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 54 A multitude of rifle-carriers among the subordinates in public services.
1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt ii. 18 A rifle-shooter going out by himself into the Karroo.
1901 Times 31 Jan. 6/5 At Vaal we stopped on hearing the sound of heavy rifle-firing.
1974 Ridge Citizen (Johnston, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 1/6 Her special training while in school consists of several years of rifle twirling while a member of the Thurmond Color Guard.
1997 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 26 May h03 A rifle-carrier in the 9th Division, private Billy fought first in North Africa and then Sicily.
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