rifleman

From rifle +‎ -man.

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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.

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