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
Lieutenant Baker was on my right, with a double-barrelled express rifle that carried a No. 70 bullet.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
Leaning my express rifle against my body I raised both hands aloft.
From Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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 Tracy, Louis
A pair of able 0.500 bore express rifle barrels were accordingly fitted in this way.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
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