RIFLE

rifle

(noun) a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; “he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired”

plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

(verb) steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

rifle (plural rifles)

(weaponry) A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.

(military, usually plural, dated) A rifleman.

(weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Verb

rifle (third-person singular simple present rifles, present participle rifling, simple past and past participle rifled)

(intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)

(intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.

(transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

(transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

(transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

(transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.

(transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.

(intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).

(obsolete, transitive) To dispose of in a raffle.

(obsolete, intransitive) To engage in a raffle.

Anagrams

• Filer, Friel, filer, flier, lifer

Source: Wiktionary

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Ri"fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifling.] Etym: [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. Etym: [Akin to Dan. rifle, or riffel, the rifle of a gun, a chamfer (cf. riffel, riffelbösse, 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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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