el
masculine
/ˈrifle/
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Translation
rifle
Word origin
From English 'rifle', a name that comes from the rifling, the spiral grooves cut inside the barrel, ultimately from Old French rifler ('to scratch, to graze').
- Origin
- English
- Root
- rifle
- English cognates
- rifle
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluralrifles
Examples
feria .
At the fair there is a stall to shoot at the target with a rifle.
dardos .
The toy rifle shoots rubber darts.
.
The museum has an old rifle from the last century.
.
They kept the rifle in a locked box.
caseta .
She won a prize at the rifle shooting booth.
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