I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pistol/rifle shot
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A pistol shot rang out in the darkness.
air rifle
fire a gun/weapon/rifle etc (= make it shoot )
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the sound of a gun being fired
pump-action shotgun/rifle
rifle range
Rifles, The
rummage/rifle through drawers (= search in them by moving things around in an untidy way )
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Someone had been in my bedroom and rummaged through my drawers.
shoot a gun/rifle etc
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Tod’s grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
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They are holding automatic rifles and wearing steel helmets.
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After the war, semi-and fully automatic rifles were developed.
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It said villagers were forming detachments, many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives.
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Walking in front of Converse was a little man called the Caporal who carried a Browning automatic rifle decorated with hibiscus.
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He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle .
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They rested on a bank, automatic rifles stacked beside them.
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He heard the fluttering of bullets before the fast slap-slap-slap of an automatic rifle .
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The police in Baku carry automatic rifles .
■ NOUN
air
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His owner, Jeremy Young admitted repeatedly shooting him with an air rifle at his home in Princes Risborough.
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It did, for the gun he took was an almost silent air rifle .
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Fifteen-year-old Nicola Child was blasted with an air rifle in a cruel prank.
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Doctors feared an air rifle pellet had pierced his brain when the joke went horribly wrong.
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Reward to catch the air rifle snipers.
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Mr Day, 32, pointed dad Frank's air rifle at the boy believing it was unloaded.
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Inside the box, an air rifle which was probably stolen.
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Requesting the congregation to leave, he sent his son to fetch an air rifle .
assault
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Over 7,000 assault rifles , 500 rocket launchers and several tonnes of explosives have been recovered.
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The men fled in a car and could be armed with assault rifles , said Capt.
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They are jointly charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing Semtex and six assault rifles on or before April 13.
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Out of the darkness stepped four men with AK-47 assault rifles and Uzi submachine guns, Anaya said.
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All in all, it is enough to protect the occupants from an assault rifle or the shrapnel from a grenade.
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He said they were not assault rifles .
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Guards with AK47 assault rifles patrol the camp perimeter but there is no need to keep people in.
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Large-caliber firearms, semiautomatic pistols and assault rifles are forbidden to civilians altogether.
butt
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Witnesses told of beatings with rifle butts and sticks and the use of bayonets and guns, he said.
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Soldiers dispersed the peasants with rifle butts , and by nightfall, violence was sweeping through the province.
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Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock, but there would be no lasting damage.
fire
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The Cheshires unleashed between 20 and 30 rounds of rifle fire to cover their withdrawal after they came under attack.
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On the screen, two cowboys were exchanging rifle fire at a distance of thirty meters or so.
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Their nine-month-old daughter Isidora is no longer rocked to the sound of rifle fire .
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Within minutes, the platoon was being pummeled by heavy machine gun and rifle fire .
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The air outside snapped with rifle fire .
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Those who advanced under the rifle fire of the Marines who had remained in position did not fall.
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The slightest movement above trench level drew rifle fire .
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The first rifle fire came with a falsetto crack.
hunting
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Two-thirds of the output from its factories is for civilian use - washing machines, prams and hunting rifles , for instance.
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So might Gianluigi's hunting rifle , for that matter.
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The gun case had room for six hunting rifles and there were two drawers underneath which were not locked.
range
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The Dragoons advanced to within rifle range and stopped to take aim.
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Once they found a herd, they sneaked up to within rifle range on foot.
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When Charlie heard the news of victory he was training some raw recruits on a rifle range in Edinburgh.
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So, we pulled back and sat outside of rifle range and watched the gunships work over this small forest.
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The army use a large acreage in the northern sector of the Pentlands as a training area and rifle range .
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There is a rifle range and climbing tower.
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Day Five saw the teams on the rifle ranges at Bulford.
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They watched the Dynmouth Hards performing at the rifle range , their black-frilled girls loitering beside them, seeming bored.
■ VERB
aim
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Then he aimed the rifle again, this time at one of the men in the front rank.
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The sentries at the Yalu River checkpoint aimed their rifles at me instead of letting me hurry across.
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Without glasses she couldn't even begin to play lawn tennis or aim a rifle .
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Soldiers demonstrated military toys like cameras to aim rifles and squishy nonlethal projectiles.
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The action of aiming a rifle can have many reasons and a vendetta is only one of many possibilities.
arm
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I told him I had twenty-two men with me, armed with fourteen rifles , as well as my own three rifles and shotgun.
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The men fled in a car and could be armed with assault rifles , said Capt.
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All were armed - some with rifles , others with spears, while nearly all wore swords and carried shields.
carry
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Petion carried a rifle , a Browning and several grenades.
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When you get down to it, in the bush, 1 man can carry 3 or 4 rifles .
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They carried rifles and had borrowed miners' helmets in place of their soft service caps.
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He carried the rifle in one hand, a couple of magazines in the other.
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The police in Baku carry automatic rifles .
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One carried a rifle by its stock, a. 30 -. 30, the muzzle bouncing off his toe.
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There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle .
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Our medic was carrying an M 16 rifle .
hold
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On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
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They are holding automatic rifles and wearing steel helmets.
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He held a loaded rifle thrust before him, as though it were bayoneted and he was advancing on a rioting crowd.
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Jacques Devraux followed them, holding his rifle at the ready until he was certain the big animal was dead.
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Marc Lepine entered the classroom holding a semi-automatic rifle .
raise
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Slowly he raised the rifle and placed it against the forehead of one of the soldiers.
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I ran to join them and raised my rifle to fire a burst for cover as they ran past me.
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Pat Buchanan raising a rifle over his head.
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Emerging from the crowd, he raised a 1964 Winchester rifle over his head.
shoot
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The sailors attacked stores owned by blacks and looted shooting galleries for rifles and ammunition.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fifteen-year-old Nicola Child was blasted with an air rifle in a cruel prank.
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I fired one magazine of an M16 rifle .
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I reached for our rifles but they had been removed.
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The guide picked up the rifle , shot and castrated him, and made off.
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The Knutes smiled, their rifles in hand.
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The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight.
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The world overflows with these rifles and their banana clips.
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There was an ornate rifle mounted on the wall behind him.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fisher rifled a pass to Dreher for an easy layup.
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He rifled through a filing cabinet in search of the memo.
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The robbers rifled the cash register and fled with $188 in cash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Immigrants slump on their luggage, soldiers point rifles at Scorsese, and the horse urinates for the fourth time.
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The Lieutenant's servant rifled the dead man's possessions.
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There is no evidence that the rifling and thievery of the files ever occurred.
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While you're away sipping sangria on a sun-soaked beach, some intruder may be rifling your unguarded home.