rifleman

English

Etymology

From rifle +‎ -man.

Noun

rifleman (plural riflemen)

1. A soldier trained to use a rifle as a primary weapon.

   The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.

   • 2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 62:

     Anil Gurung joined the Army in 2006 as a rifleman with the 2nd Royal Gurkha Regiment.

2. A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.

   She was quite the rifleman and could pick off a squirrels with a .22 from across the field with amazing accuracy.

3. A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.

Translations

soldier

• Basque: fusilari
• Bulgarian: стрелец m (strelec)
• Catalan: fuseller m
• Finnish: jääkäri (fi), kiväärimies
• French: fusilier (fr) m
• Irish: muscaedóir m, fear raidhfil m
• Italian: bersagliere (it) m, fuciliere (it) m
• Kazakh: атқыш (atqyş)
• Latvian: strēlnieks m, strēlniece f
• Occitan: fusilhièr (oc) m
• Portuguese: fuzileiro (pt) m
• Russian: стрелок (ru) m (strelok)
• Spanish: fusilero (es) m
• Ukrainian: стріле́ць m (strilécʹ)

person skilled in the use of a rifle

• Bulgarian: снайперист m (snajperist)
• Finnish: kivääriampuja, kiväärimies
• Hungarian: lövész (hu)
• Irish: fear raidhfil m
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: лӱйышӧ (lüjyšö)

Acanthisitta chloris

• Finnish: metsävilistäjä (fi)
• Maori: tītitipounamu
• Polish: barglik (pl) m

See also

• infantry
• musketeer

Anagrams

• inflamer