meaning of rifle
1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
2. To strip; to rob; to pillage.
3. To raffle.
4. To raffle.
5. To commit robbery.
6. 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
7. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
8. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
9. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
10. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n. , 3.
11. a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and
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Related Words
rifle | rifle ball | rifle butt | rifle grenade | rifle range | rifle shot | riflebird | rifled | rifleman | rifleman bird | rifler |
