rifle
7 definitions found
rifle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Rifle \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.
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2. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rifling.] [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.
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Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --Pope.
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2. To strip; to rob; to pillage. --Piers Plowman.
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Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --Shak.
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3. To raffle. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. i.
1. To raffle. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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2. To commit robbery. [R.] --Bp. Hall.
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Rifle \Ri"fle\, n. [Akin to Dan. rifle, or riffel, the rifle of
a gun, a chamfer (cf. riffel, riffelb["o]sse, 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it has superseded the musket.
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2. pl. (Mil.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
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3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material,
used for sharpening scythes.
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Rifle pit (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.
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rifle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
rifle
n 1: a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore;
"he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray]
2: go through in search of something; search through someone's
belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my
desk drawers?" [syn: rifle, go]
rifle - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Rifle, CO (city, FIPS 64255)
Location: 39.53934 N, 107.77775 W
Population (1990): 4636 (1984 housing units)
Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 81650
rifle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "rifle":
Amazon, Zouave, air serviceman, automatic, bersagliere, blowgun,
blowpipe, brave, burglarize, burgle, canal, canalize,
cannon fodder, carabineer, carve, chamfer, channel, chasseur,
chisel, comb, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, depredate,
despoil, dike, ditch, dogface, doughfoot, engrave, expert rifleman,
fighting man, firearm, flamethrower, fleece, flute,
food for powder, foot soldier, footslogger, forage, foray,
freeboot, furrow, fusileer, gash, gat, go through, goffer, gouge,
grenadier, groove, grunt, gully, gun, gut, halberdier, handgun,
heater, hoplite, incise, infantryman, knock off, knock over,
legionary, light infantryman, look all over, look everywhere, loot,
man-at-arms, maraud, marksman, military man, musket, musketeer,
navy man, paddlefoot, peashooter, piece, pikeman, pillage, pistol,
pleat, plow, plunder, prey on, rabbet, raid, rake, ransack, ravage,
raven, ravish, reive, relieve, repeater, revolver, rifleman, rob,
rod, rummage, rut, sack, sawed-off shotgun, score, scour, scratch,
search, search high heaven, serviceman, shake, shake down,
sharpshooter, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, slit,
sniper, soldier, spearman, spoil, spoliate, stick up, streak,
striate, sweep, toss, trench, trough, turn inside out,
turn upside down, warrior, warrioress, wrinkle
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