air rifle 
noun
A rifle which fires pellets using compressed air.The pellet fired from an air rifle lodged just centimetres from Lee's eye socket....
- After losing some money to robbers and conmen, Edwards bought an air rifle and air pistol to ‘protect himself’.
- Reports of an air rifle pellet being fired at school.
- close by
- close call
- close-caption
- close-coupled
- close-cropped
- closed
- closed book
- closed caption
- closed chain
- closed-circuit television
- closed communion
- closed compound
- closed couplet
- closed-door
- closed-end
- closed-in
- close-down
- close down (or close something down)
- closed season
- closed shop
- closed syllable
- closed traverse
- closed universe
- close encounter
- close encounter of the first (or second etc.) kind