A rifle is a long, powerful gun that is fired from the shoulder. A soldier is most often armed with a rifle.
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
Noun
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
Verb
go through in search of something; search through someone''s belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
Verb
steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
v. t.
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
off.
v. t.
To strip; to rob; to pillage.
v. t.
To raffle.
v. i.
To raffle.
v. i.
To commit robbery.
n.
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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
n.
A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
n.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material,
used for sharpening scythes.
v. t.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally
with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
v. t.
To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
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Till time shall rifle every youthful grace.2.
Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.3.
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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
To raffle.
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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels;
Usage Examples
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe only real power comes out of a long rifle.
If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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