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rook rifle

rook rifle noun: an English single-shot dropping block or break-action small-calibre rifle for shooting rooks and rabbits.

Noun

rook rifle (plural rook rifles)

  1. (historical) An English single-shot dropping block or break-action small-calibre rifle for shooting rooks and rabbits.
    • In St. James's Street there used to be several shops which would sell you any form of lethalness, from a rook-rifle to an elephant-gun, with the greatest urbanity.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 151

Synonyms of rook rifle

Forms of rook rifle

pluralrook rifles

Questions about rook rifle

What does rook rifle mean?
Rook rifle means an English single-shot dropping block or break-action small-calibre rifle for shooting rooks and rabbits.
What part of speech is rook rifle?
Rook rifle is a noun.
What is the plural of rook rifle?
The plural of rook rifle is rook rifles.

Words near rook rifle in the dictionary

  1. rook and rabbit rifles
  2. rook lift
  3. rook lifts
  4. rook polynomial
  5. rook polynomials
  6. rook rifle
  7. rook rifles
  8. rook's pawn
  9. rook's pawns
  10. Rookard
  11. Rookards

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