About The Word Rifle
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Rifle Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Rifle?
[n] a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
[v] go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?" [v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonyms | Synonyms for Rifle: despoil | foray | go | loot | pillage | plunder | ransack | reave | strip Related Terms | Find terms related to Rifle: See Also | bolt | carbine | deplume | displume | firearm | Garand | Garand rifle | M-1 | M-1 rifle | piece | pump action | rifle butt | search | slide action | small-arm | take | Winchester Rifle In Webster's Dictionary \Ri"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rifled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Rifling}.] [F. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain
origin. CF. {Raff}.]
1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
off.
Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --Pope.
2. To strip; to rob; to pillage. --Piers Plowman.
Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: If
not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --Shak.
3. To raffle. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
\Ri"fle\, v. i. 1. To raffle. [Obs.] --Chapman. 2. To commit robbery. [R.] --Bp. Hall. \Ri"fle\, n. [Akin to Dan. rifle, or riffel, the rifle of a gun, a chamfer (cf. riffel, riffelb["o]sse, a rifle gun, rifle to rifle a gun, G. riefeln, riefen, to chamfer, groove), and E. rive. See {Rive}, and cf. {Riffle}, {Rivel}.] 1. A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. 2. pl. (Mil.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles. 3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. {Rifle pit} (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters. \Ri"fle\, v. t. 1. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon. 2. To whet with a rifle. See {Rifle}, n., 3. |
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