target rifle

noun

1. a rifle designed especially for shooting at targets.

Word History and Origins

Origin of target rifle¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Now, Step Hen had often fired a target rifle at just such a picture of a deer as this in the shooting gallery in Cranford.

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He had his eye on my target-rifle as he replied, "Yassah, I'd like it—what sort o' gun yo' got?"

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I had left the target rifle on the rocks up by the shanty boat.

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Ide was one of the few men who still carried his telescopic target rifle.

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He was back right away, with the target rifle, and then he told me to get up and get away from there, but I couldn't get up.

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