riflemann.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪflmən/, U.S.

/ˈraɪfəlmən/

Forms: see rifle n.³ and man n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rifle n.³, man n.¹

Etymology: < rifle n.³ + man n.¹ With sense 3a compare rifle-bird n. In sense 3b perhaps with allusion to a similarity between the bird's plumage and a military uniform.

1. A soldier armed with a rifle. Formerly the name of a member, usually a private, of certain specially raised regiments or companies, as in the American Revolution.

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > rifleman

hunter1753

rifleman1764

shirtman1775

jäger1776

yager1804

bersagliere1862

shootist1864

rifle1933

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > rifle

hunter1753

rifleman1764

rifler1775

shirtman1775

jäger1776

yager1804

rifle shot1826

bersagliere1862

1764 A. Stephen Let. 16 Apr. in H. Bouquet Papers (1942) Ser. 21650 1st Pt. 104 Several Parties of Indians are down in Hampshire, but I have a Number of Chosen Rifflemen on the hunt after them.

1776 Remembrancer 2 130/2 Colonel Arnold sent 300 back, and with the remaining 500 (one hundred of whom were rifle men) took the route of the rivers Kenebec and Chaudiere.

1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 175 Gen. Scott has proceeded towards Fort Jefferson with 1500 mounted militia and rifle-men.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Mounted Riflemen, a corps of riflemen in the British service, dressed like hussars.

1836 W. Irving Astoria (1849) 158 The loss of two..prime riflemen was a serious affair to the party.

1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 140 Popping their heads round for an instant to fire a bark at you, and then dodge back like riflemen.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 551 Sharpshooter,..in small-arms firing, a grade of rifleman just below that of expert rifleman.

1970 S. J. Marks Coup D'état iii. 36 It was a physical and scientific impossibility for any rifleman, using a military rifle, to attempt to load and reload bullets in an ammunition clip while firing.

1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 31 One Rifleman threw his rifle down and using some good English language declined to soldier further.

2. A person who shoots with a rifle.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > other types of shooter

Peter Gunner1615

pot-hunter1750

rifleman1809

snapshot1845

market-shooter1880

holder-on1881

potter1884

snap-shooter1887

kangaroo-shooter1902

plinker1943

rough-shooter1958

scattergunner1969

1809 D. Ramsay Hist. S. Carolina II. x. 408 A good rifleman with a fair shot seldom misses a deer or a wild turkey at the distance of 150 yards.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 449/2 On Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Conlin's Gallery, some twenty of the prominent off-hand riflemen, of New York City, organized this new club.

1957 Amer. Speech 32 190 It is inevitable..that colloquialisms of the handgunner overlap with those of the rifleman.

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 127/1 It was agreed that no rifleman, no matter how skilled, could get off four aimed rounds from a Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action rifle in 5.6 seconds.

a. A rifle-bird (genus Ptiloris). Also rifleman bird. Now rare.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Paradisaeidae (bird of paradise) > genus Ptilorrhis (rifle-bird)

rifle-bird1825

rifleman1826

1826 R. P. Lesson & P. Garnot Voy. Coquille, Zoologie I. 669 Nous nous procurâmes un très-bel individu de l'epimaque royal à Sydney... Il..portait dans la colonie le nom vulgaire de riffle-man, pour rappeler que ce fut un soldat de la garnison qui le tua le premier.

1833 New S. Wales Mag. (Sydney) 12 In the long recesses of their thick and trackless scrubs..the call of the ‘khaggak’, or rifleman, would be most likely heard.

1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. ix. 215 The former is the Paradise Honeysucker, the Rifleman or Rifle-bird of the colonists (Ptiloris paradiseus).

1918 C. Morris Winston's Cumulative Encycl. II Bird of Paradise... Among the most striking of these birds are..the rifleman or rifle-bird, Ptilorhis paradisea.

b. A very small, short-tailed perching bird, Acanthisitta chloris (family Acanthisittidae or Xenicidae), the smallest bird endemic to New Zealand, which feeds on insects on tree bark, the male being greenish yellow and the female brownish. Cf. New Zealand wren n. at New Zealand n. 2c.In quot. 1871, applied to a form of a related bird, the extinct bush wren, Xenicus longipes.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Acanthisittidae (rock wren)

New Zealand wren1861

rifleman1871

bush-wren1887

rock wren1966

1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 7 Xenicus stokesii...Grey Wren. Stripe-faced Wren. Rifleman.

1914 H. Guthrie-Smith Mutton Birds & Other Birds 123 Although but a very little bird the Rifleman adds much to the life of the woods with his faint ‘zee’, ‘zee’, ‘zee’, his endlessly repeated wink and twinkle of wing.

1962 National Geographic Apr. 482/2 (caption) Tiny rifleman stalks insects in the forest.

2002 R. Boardman et al. 1000 Facts Birds 84 The rifle-man, one of the three species of New Zealand wren, lays eggs that are about 20 percent of her body weight.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rifleman
释义	riflemann. Brit. /ˈrʌɪflmən/, U.S. /ˈraɪfəlmən/ Forms: see rifle n.³ and man n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rifle n.³, man n.¹ Etymology: < rifle n.³ + man n.¹ With sense 3a compare rifle-bird n. In sense 3b perhaps with allusion to a similarity between the bird's plumage and a military uniform. 1. A soldier armed with a rifle. Formerly the name of a member, usually a private, of certain specially raised regiments or companies, as in the American Revolution. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > rifleman hunter1753 rifleman1764 shirtman1775 jäger1776 yager1804 bersagliere1862 shootist1864 rifle1933 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > rifle hunter1753 rifleman1764 rifler1775 shirtman1775 jäger1776 yager1804 rifle shot1826 bersagliere1862 1764 A. Stephen Let. 16 Apr. in H. Bouquet Papers (1942) Ser. 21650 1st Pt. 104 Several Parties of Indians are down in Hampshire, but I have a Number of Chosen Rifflemen on the hunt after them. 1776 Remembrancer 2 130/2 Colonel Arnold sent 300 back, and with the remaining 500 (one hundred of whom were rifle men) took the route of the rivers Kenebec and Chaudiere. 1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 175 Gen. Scott has proceeded towards Fort Jefferson with 1500 mounted militia and rifle-men. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Mounted Riflemen, a corps of riflemen in the British service, dressed like hussars. 1836 W. Irving Astoria (1849) 158 The loss of two..prime riflemen was a serious affair to the party. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 140 Popping their heads round for an instant to fire a bark at you, and then dodge back like riflemen. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 551 Sharpshooter,..in small-arms firing, a grade of rifleman just below that of expert rifleman. 1970 S. J. Marks Coup D'état iii. 36 It was a physical and scientific impossibility for any rifleman, using a military rifle, to attempt to load and reload bullets in an ammunition clip while firing. 1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 31 One Rifleman threw his rifle down and using some good English language declined to soldier further. 2. A person who shoots with a rifle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > other types of shooter Peter Gunner1615 pot-hunter1750 rifleman1809 snapshot1845 market-shooter1880 holder-on1881 potter1884 snap-shooter1887 kangaroo-shooter1902 plinker1943 rough-shooter1958 scattergunner1969 1809 D. Ramsay Hist. S. Carolina II. x. 408 A good rifleman with a fair shot seldom misses a deer or a wild turkey at the distance of 150 yards. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 449/2 On Tuesday, Nov. 20, at Conlin's Gallery, some twenty of the prominent off-hand riflemen, of New York City, organized this new club. 1957 Amer. Speech 32 190 It is inevitable..that colloquialisms of the handgunner overlap with those of the rifleman. 1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 127/1 It was agreed that no rifleman, no matter how skilled, could get off four aimed rounds from a Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action rifle in 5.6 seconds. 3. a. A rifle-bird (genus Ptiloris). Also rifleman bird. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Paradisaeidae (bird of paradise) > genus Ptilorrhis (rifle-bird) rifle-bird1825 rifleman1826 1826 R. P. Lesson & P. Garnot Voy. Coquille, Zoologie I. 669 Nous nous procurâmes un très-bel individu de l'epimaque royal à Sydney... Il..portait dans la colonie le nom vulgaire de riffle-man, pour rappeler que ce fut un soldat de la garnison qui le tua le premier. 1833 New S. Wales Mag. (Sydney) 12 In the long recesses of their thick and trackless scrubs..the call of the ‘khaggak’, or rifleman, would be most likely heard. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. ix. 215 The former is the Paradise Honeysucker, the Rifleman or Rifle-bird of the colonists (Ptiloris paradiseus). 1918 C. Morris Winston's Cumulative Encycl. II Bird of Paradise... Among the most striking of these birds are..the rifleman or rifle-bird, Ptilorhis paradisea. b. A very small, short-tailed perching bird, Acanthisitta chloris (family Acanthisittidae or Xenicidae), the smallest bird endemic to New Zealand, which feeds on insects on tree bark, the male being greenish yellow and the female brownish. Cf. New Zealand wren n. at New Zealand n. 2c.In quot. 1871, applied to a form of a related bird, the extinct bush wren, Xenicus longipes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Acanthisittidae (rock wren) New Zealand wren1861 rifleman1871 bush-wren1887 rock wren1966 1871 F. W. Hutton Catal. Birds N.Z. 7 Xenicus stokesii...Grey Wren. Stripe-faced Wren. Rifleman. 1914 H. Guthrie-Smith Mutton Birds & Other Birds 123 Although but a very little bird the Rifleman adds much to the life of the woods with his faint ‘zee’, ‘zee’, ‘zee’, his endlessly repeated wink and twinkle of wing. 1962 National Geographic Apr. 482/2 (caption) Tiny rifleman stalks insects in the forest. 2002 R. Boardman et al. 1000 Facts Birds 84 The rifle-man, one of the three species of New Zealand wren, lays eggs that are about 20 percent of her body weight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1764
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