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Rifle

Noun

Definitions

1.NounA firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
2.NounA rifleman.
3.NounAn artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
4.NounA strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
5.VerbTo quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing).
"; She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document."
6.VerbTo commit robbery or theft.
7.VerbTo search with intent to steal.
8.VerbTo strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
9.VerbTo seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
10.VerbTo add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
11.VerbTo cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
12.VerbTo move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
13.VerbTo dispose of in a raffle.
14.VerbTo engage in a raffle.
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