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Rifle range is London Cockney rhyming slang for change (money).
A .50 caliber Sharps rifle used by professionals for buffalo hunting. It was 16 pounds unloaded, with three-quarter inch, 120-grain black powder cartridges loaded for differing ranges.
(also AK or Kalishnikov) rifle. Pgs. 503 & 513
Any firearm manufactured Christian Sharps for his Sharps Rifle Company. This term also applied to professional gamblers who cheated at the Poker tables.
Armored Troop Carrier (ATC). Sorta like an APC that really did float, but didn't do so good on land. The originals were LCM-6s with armor plate and bar armor added. They had nine seats for the troops and a canvas top to keep the sun out. Each tango could carry a fully equipped rifle platoon. They had two twin .50 cal. machine gun mounts on and a canvas top to keep the sun out. Each tango could carry a fully equipped rifle platoon. They had two twin .50 cal. machine gun mounts on the boat deck and four Browning .30 cal. light machine guns rechambered for NATO 7.62 mm in the well deck. In 1968 the Navy deployed two new river assault squadrons with tango boats built from the keel up specifically for riverine operation.
An order given on parade to a guard of honour, commanding them to hold their rifle vertically in front of their bodies. Originally a pacific and friendly gesture literally meaning "presented for you to take if you wish".
to put a M16A1 rifle on full automatic fire. Pg. 519
banana shaped magazine, standard on the AK-47 assault rifle.
A gun or rifle, called also a shooting-iron.
a 106mm recoilless rifle using antipersonnel canister ammunition. Pg. 505
rifle, predecessor to the M-16, the Carbine, CAR-15.
Rifle is British slang for the penis.
nicknamed the widow-maker, the standard American rifle used in Vietnam after 1966. Pg. 515, 523
World War II vintage American rifle/carbine. Pg. 515. The 8 shot, .30 caliber "M-1" was superceded by the M-14 and subsequently by the 18 shot .223 M-16.
Six-gun or a rifle.
To break, kill: e.g. "Went out with the air rifle and potted a few birds. "Used my sling on a few windows... managed to pot a few!!". Probably in relation to bagging game for the (cooking) 'pot'.
.30 cal, select-fire rifle used in early portion of Vietnam War. Pg. 515
Browning Automatic Rifle, .30 cal, heavy, shoulder fired weapon, used in WWII and Korea. The M-14 sought to combine the firepower BAR with portablilty of the M-1. The M-60 machinegun replaced both the BAR and the Browning light machinegun.
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n.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
n.
The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
n.
A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
v. t.
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
v. t.
To raffle.
n.
A soldier armed with a rifle.
n.
A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
v. t.
To strip; to rob; to pillage.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rifle
v. i.
To raffle.
v. t.
To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
n.
One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
n.
One who rifles; a robber.
imp. & p. p.
of Rifle
v. i.
To commit robbery.
pl.
of Rifleman
n.
Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.
n.
The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
v. t.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
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