RIFLE
\ɹˈa͡ɪfə͡l], \ɹˈaɪfəl], \ɹ_ˈaɪ_f_əl]\
Definitions of RIFLE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
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To strip; to rob; to pillage.
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To raffle.
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To commit robbery.
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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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
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A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
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A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
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To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
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To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
By Oddity Software
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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
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To strip; to rob; to pillage.
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To commit robbery.
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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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
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A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
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A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
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To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
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To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
By Noah Webster.
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To commit robbery.
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A firearm with the barrel spirally grooved for the purpose of insuring greater accuracy in fire.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To carry off by force: to strip, to rob.
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RIFLER.
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To groove spirally, as a gun-barrel.
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A musket with a barrel spirally grooved.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To despoil; plunder; snatch away.
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To groove spirally, as the bore of a gun; rotate when discharged, as a bullet.
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A firearm having spiral grooves within the bore for imparting rotation to the projectile.
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Rifleman.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Troops armed with rifles.
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A musket, whose barrel is spirally grooved.
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To seize and bear away by force; to strip; to plunder.
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To groove, as a ritio.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To ransack; to sweep all away; to pillage; to plunder.
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A musket or hand-gun, the inside of the barrel of which is grooved or formed with spiral channels in order to make the bullet revolve.
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To channel or groove.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
