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ˈrifle-shot
Also rifleshot.
[rifle n.3 2.]
1. Such a distance as may be covered by a shot from a rifle.
1803A. Ellicott Jrnl. 249 We anchored about rifle shot from the sloop. 1816Niles' Reg. IX. Suppl. 190/2 The schooner now thought it prudent to claw off, and had just escaped out of rifle shot. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop li, The Wilderness..was within rifle-shot of his bachelor retreat. 1871Kingsley At Last xvii, Threading our way between them, sometimes not a rifle⁓shot from the cliffs.
2. One skilled in shooting with a rifle.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 18/1, I have always been reckoned..to be a very fair rifle-shot. 1869Ruskin Q. of Air i. §36 If there be any good rifleshots here, they know something about Athena's parrying.
3. A shot fired with a rifle.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. viii. 160 There were the remains of the rude fortress in the swamp, shattered by rifle shot. 1846R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xvii. 145 The sharp crack of a rifle-shot. 1875–6Stevenson Ess. Trav. (1905) 167 Out of the thick of the trees, comes the jar of rifle-shots. |