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Carbine :: Carbine (n.) A short, light musket or rifle, esp. one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry..

Ball :: Ball (n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets..

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

Faddle :: Faddle (v. i.) To trifle; to toy.

Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.

Haberdashery :: Haberdashery (n.) The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles..

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

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

Fuss :: Fuss (v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

Thought :: Thought (n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better..

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..

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler..

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle..

Blab :: Blab (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion..

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To trifle or play.

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

Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

Pococurante :: Pococurante (n.) A careless person; a trifler.

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes..

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