noun
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a person skilled in the use of a rifle, esp a soldier
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Also called: titipounamu. a wren, Acanthisitta chloris , of New Zealand: family Xenicidae See also bush wren
Other Word Forms
- riflemanship noun
Etymology
Origin of rifleman
Example Sentences
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In the future, Breuer predicts, “Every rifleman will need to be a drone pilot.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Before becoming a politician he left the British Army as a rifleman to earn a living as the owner a jiu-jitsu gym in Swindon.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024
He came overland from New Mexico with a wagon train expedition called the Rowland Workman party; he was a tailor and a rifleman, both handy skills in the new frontier.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
Cancel joined the Marine Corps in 2017 as an infantry rifleman, said Maj.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022
Just outside the mortar pit, Scruggs saw John Pies, a rifleman with his company who’d been walking by.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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