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Shilly-shally :: Shilly-shally (n.) Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles..

Rifle :: Rifle (v. i.) To raffle.

Breath :: Breath (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.

Range :: Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced..

Polygrooved :: Polygrooved (a.) Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling)..

Rifler :: Rifler (n.) One who rifles; a robber.

Play :: Play (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.

Peddle :: Peddle (v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.

Patch :: Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore..

Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Palter :: Palter (v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.

Tomfool :: Tomfool (n.) A great fool; a trifler.

Fico :: Fico (n.) A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you..

Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..

Triviality :: Triviality (n.) That which is trivial; a trifle.

Trifled :: Trifled (imp. & p. p.) of Trifl.

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles..

Stripe :: Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.

Bullet :: Bullet (n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm..

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