Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place for practice in shooting with the rifle.
- noun A specific distance at which rifle-shooting is practised.
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Examples
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The little band fought its way gallantly to within rifle-range of the small creek referred to, but could get no farther, for the Indians had taken up a position in the bed of the stream, and from under cover of its banks Elliott and all his remaining men were quickly killed.
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Ditto the rocks lining the guardhouse walk, the rifle-range target supports, the metal stanchions supporting the razor wire fence.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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Ditto the rocks lining the guardhouse walk, the rifle-range target supports, the metal stanchions supporting the razor wire fence.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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No group of winners enjoyed a more perverse windfall than gun-shop owners, whose showrooms were besieged by militiamen, survivalists, deerstalkers, rifle-range groupies, fans of the cult film Red Dawn, and other Second Amendment bitter-enders loading up on guns, scopes, and ammo as if ready to refight the Battle of the Alamo in the Home Depot parking lot.
The Good, the Bad, and Joe Lieberman Wolcott, James 2009
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Ditto the rocks lining the guardhouse walk, the rifle-range target supports, the metal stanchions supporting the razor wire fence.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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As for the activities of Asadullah Khalid being none of our business, Hillier is so off the mark he might well be on the wrong rifle-range.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008
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A white-haired man, his face reddened by a day on the rifle-range in blazing sun, claimed he was not nervous of the future, but gave himself away when he acknowledged that he was learning how to use automatic weapons "just in case."
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By 11 P.M. of September 13 Grant reached the hill a few hundred yards from the fort and there he assembled 750 men or more almost within rifle-range of the French.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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By 11 P.M. of September 13 Grant reached the hill a few hundred yards from the fort and there he assembled 750 men or more almost within rifle-range of the French.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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By 11 P.M. of September 13 Grant reached the hill a few hundred yards from the fort and there he assembled 750 men or more almost within rifle-range of the French.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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