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Definition of Rifle range
1. Noun. The distance that a rifle bullet will carry. "The target was out of rifle range"
2. Noun. A range where people can practice shooting rifles. "During the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges"
Definition of Rifle range
1. Noun. A shooting range for shooting rifles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifle Range
Literary usage of Rifle range
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1901)
"We have a rifle range at West Bromwich which is in a large park, ... When I was
at Southampton our rifle range was directly at the end of the Solent, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"Most of them wore blue overcoats, and fur nearly an hour one squad was within
long rifle-range of a squad of Union troops, and each supposed that the other ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"... rating of cemeteries, recreation grounds, Brentford Market, and Runnymede
rifle range; for amending the London and Middlesex (Adjustment) Scheme, ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... and by the rifle-range at the latter station. The State is held on the same
conditions as ... riflerange ..."
5. A Treatise on Extraordinary Relief in Equity and at Law by Thomas Carl Spelling (1893)
"Miscellaneous — Dangerous Bridge ; rifle range ; Chinese Laundry. •— Many acts
and things may be or become nuisances which it is unnecessary as well as ..."
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