Definition of Sniperscope

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sniperscope

snip
snip off
snipe
snipe hunt
snipe hunts
snipebill
snipebills
sniped
snipefish
snipelike
sniper
sniper rifle
sniper rifles
sniperlike
snipers
sniperscope (current term)
sniperscopes
snipes
snipier
snipiest
sniping
snipingly
snipings
snippack
snipped
snipper
snipper-snapper
snipper-snappers
snippers
snippersnapper

Literary usage of Sniperscope

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare by Army War College (U.S., U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C., Army War College (U.S.) (1917)
"A SNIPER USING A sniperscope. should be provided to prevent their being discovered by light showing through the hole. Loopholes near the ground are not as ..."

2. Map Reading and Intelligence Training by C. D. A. Barber (1917)
"When the sniperscope is required there is no time to run around through the trenches looking for the periscope to fire it with. A general description of the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"sniperscope.—A device by the use of which a soldier can both aim and fire his piece at an object in front without exposing himself above the parapet. ..."

4. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"Many of the inventions are forgotten, but some are in use in France to-day, notably the "periscope rifle " or " sniperscope'' ..."

5. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"sniperscope.—A device by the use of which a soldier can both aim and fire his piece at an object in front without exposing himself above the parapet. ..."

6. Inventions of the Great War by Alexander Russell Bond (1919)
"A "sniperscope" with which a sharpshooter could take aim without showing his head above the parapet would cross at a spot where the sniper or his gun was ..."

7. Inventions of the Great War by Alexander Russell Bond (1919)
"This attachment was called a "sniperscope." The rifle- barrel could be pushed through a loophole in the parapet and the sniper standing safely below the ..."

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