| 1. | a single-shot, muzzleloading rifle, of .577 caliber, used by the British army in the Crimean War and in limited numbers by both sides in the American Civil War. |
| 2. | a bolt-action, breech-loading, .303-caliber magazine rifle introduced in Britain in 1902. |
| 3. | an American .30-caliber rifle used in World War I by U.S. troops, patterned after the British Enfield rifle. |
| Enfield rifle n. Any of several rifles formerly used by British and American troops, especially the .30- or .303-caliber, bolt-action, breechloading model. [After Enfield, a borough of London, England.] |
