rifle butt

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   the butt end of a rifle

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Questions about rifle butt

What does rifle butt mean?

rifle butt means "the butt end of a rifle".

Is rifle butt a common word?

rifle butt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.