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Rifling

verb
/ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)
"She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document."
2.verbTo commit robbery or theft.
3.verbTo search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
4.verbTo strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
5.verbTo seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
6.verbTo add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
7.verbTo cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
8.verbTo move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
9.verbTo dispose of in a raffle.
10.verbTo engage in a raffle.
11.nounThe act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
12.nounThe system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
13.nounThe act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.

Synonyms

groovinggroovetwistflutinggaining twistfilatoryflutestripsmoothborerollgraftingbarrelmaking

Rhymes With

stiflingtrifling
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