RIFLE

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Traducere în limba română

rifle¹ I. substantiv

1. puşcă (cu ghinturi).

2. ghint de puşcă.

3. plural oameni înarmaţi cu puşti, puşcaşi.

4. (tehn.) şanţ, jgheab.

rifle¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a ghintui (o puşcă etc.).

2. a trage în, a împuşca.

3. a doborî (pe cineva) cu o împuşcătură.

rifle¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

a trage cu arma.

rifle² verb tranzitiv

a jefui; a devaliza; a jecmăni;

to rifle a letter a intercepta o scrisoare.

It was the shot-gun, not the rifle, which I had taken!

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again he fought it, and still it persisted, till for very relief he opened his rifle to unconvince himself.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

“Better get your rifles, you fellows,” Wolf Larsen called to our hunters; and the five men lined the lee rail, guns in hand, and waited.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He stepped away from the rifle, and White Fang's lifted lips descended, covering his teeth.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Get the rifles, both of them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each man carried a rifle.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

He took out a beautiful brown-and-silver rifle.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Within an hour we had brought up the rifles and a shot-gun.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Summerlee held out the butt-end of his rifle, and an instant later I was able to grasp his hand.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After all, my rifle would probably have been as useless as a shot-gun against such dangers as I might meet.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)