meaning of rifles

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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.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 ">fired"


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