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rook rifles

rook rifles is the plural of rook rifle.

Meaning of rook rifle

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

Questions about rook rifles

What is rook rifles the plural of?
Rook rifles is the plural of rook rifle.

Words near rook rifles in the dictionary

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

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