express rifle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of express rifle
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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His white hunter will take him where the game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses.
From Time Magazine Archive
My weapon was a 450 double express rifle, by Alex.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Beatrice Violet Graham Greville
The man carrying the blankets dropped them and seized a heavy express rifle that some Englishman had left in the country.
From Bears I Have Met—and Others by Allen Kelly
Leaning my express rifle against my body I raised both hands aloft.
From Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
It was fired from an express rifle, an' there's on'y one of the sort in Roxton, so far as I've ever seen.
From The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy
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