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Definition of Rifle butt
1. Noun. The butt end of a rifle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifle Butt
Literary usage of Rifle butt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Red Cross Magazine by American national Red cross (1917)
"They edged closer in, staring across for sight of the silhouette of the rifle
butt above the parapet. The mist had grown thicker again and the parapet ..."
2. "Welcome to Hell": Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Extortion in Chechnya by Human Rights Watch, Johanna Bjorken, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Peter Bouckaert (2000)
"I was on my feet, and then they punched me, and when I fell, they then hit me
with a rifle butt, in the face.159 Interrogations took place in tents not far ..."
3. The Remaking of a Mind: A Soldier's Thoughts on War and Reconstruction by Hendrik de Man (1919)
"... to kill them by crashing their brains out with his rifle-butt rather than by
pushing his bayonet through their body, to kill them with the nails of his ..."
4. The Road to Liège: The Path of Crime, August 1914 by Gustave Somville (1916)
"Renard, F., married, 62 years, killed with the rifle-butt and the bayonet. ...
Marguerite, 20 years, shot and her skull smashed open with the rifle-butt. ..."
5. Report and Transactions (1863)
"Those at Mount Batten Castle also saw Bovisand Pier so plainly, that they could
almost count the poles of the scaffolding then upon it. 5th. The rifle butt ..."
6. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of (1864)
"At the conclusion of the experiments, although the battery had lost five-sixths
of its power, yet there was energy enough left to illuminate the rifle butt ..."
7. Training in Night Movements: Based on Actual Experience in War by Charles Burnett (1917)
"These signals may be fixed by the tone of the whistle, or by the number of blows
struck on the rifle butt. In this instruction, have the assistant ..."
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