RIFLEMAN

Rifleman

A rifleman is a soldier in a light infantry unit. Although ultimately originating with the 16th century handgunners and the 17th century musketeers and streltsy, the term rifleman originated in the 18th century. Entire regiments and bodies of troops were armed with the weapon. It later became the term for the archetypal common infantryman.

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rifleman

Noun

  1. A soldier trained to use a rifle as their primary weapon.
    The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.
  2. A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.
    She was quite the rifleman and could pick off a squirrels with a .22 from across the field with amazing accuracy.
  3. A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, , the titipounamu.


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