target rifle
noun
a rifle designed especially for shooting at targets.
Origin of target rifle
1First recorded in 1900–05
Words Nearby target rifle
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How to use target rifle in a sentence
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.
The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods | Herbert CarterHe had his eye on my target-rifle as he replied, "Yassah, I'd like it—what sort o' gun yo' got?"
Dwellers in Arcady | Albert Bigelow PaineI had left the target rifle on the rocks up by the shanty boat.
Swatty | Ellis Parker ButlerIde was one of the few men who still carried his telescopic target rifle.
Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 | William Y. W. RipleyHe 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.
Swatty | Ellis Parker Butler
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