rifledomn.
/ˈrʌɪfldəm/, U.S. /ˈraɪf(ə)ldəm/ The practice or art of using a rifle; the world of rifles.
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1862 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 508/2 Ping, ping! There speaks the Hythe School of Musketry, or rather of Rifledom.
1901 Forest & Stream 21 Dec. 497/3 In the front rank of the writers on rifledom.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 589/2 A hammered bullet sizzled overhead with that peculiar noise which is not often heard in these days of universal rifledom.
1966 Southern Illinoisan 20 Feb. 16/5 The manufacturer proudly proclaims this is the best thing that's happened to rifledom since the Kentucky rifle left Penn.
2006 Paducah (Kentucky) Sun (Nexis) 1 Mar. The Mayfield plant is rocking rifledom with a no-frills, value-steeped centerfire shooter, the Model 710.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- well-boiled
- well-boned
- well-boring
- well-born
- well-bottomed
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- well-braced
- well-branched
- well-brawned
- well-breathed
- well-bred
- well-breeched
- well-brewed
- well-broke
- well-broken
- well-brooked
- well-brought-up
- well-browed
- well-browned
- well-brushed
- well-builded
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