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A device based on the principle of the periscope, attached to a rifle near the rear sight and projecting downward into a trench, and used by a soldier to aim and fire his rifle without exposing himself.

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  • Failing that, one could always put someone up on top of a building with a sniperscope.
  • He kept looking through his sniperscope as I once again made an attempt to start the car.
  • There is no chance that anyone will get in late at night without showing up on a sniperscope.
  • The radar didn't show them, and neither by eye nor by sniperscope could I see anything more than the night and the waves going over the grass.
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