Definition of Rifle butt

1. Noun. The butt end of a rifle.

Generic synonyms: Butt, Butt End
Group relationships: Rifle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifle Butt

riffing
riffle
riffled
rifflers
riffles
riffling
riffly
riffraff
riffraffs
riffs
riffwise
riffy
rifle
rifle ball
rifle green
rifle grenade
rifle range
rifle ranges
rifle shot
riflebird
riflebirds
rifled
rifled slug
rifled slugs
riflelike
rifleman
rifleman bird
riflemen

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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