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rook rifle en · NOUN
Meanings
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(historical) An English single-shot dropping block or break-action small-calibre rifle for shooting rooks and rabbits.
In St. James's Street there used to be several shops which would sell you any form of lethalness, from a rook-rifle to an elephant-gun, with the greatest urbanity.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 151:
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Synonyms
rook and rabbit rifle