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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Rifle

Rifle (rifle)
v. t.(?)
Ri"fle
[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.

    Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. Pope.

  2. To strip; to rob; to pillage.
    Piers Plowman.

    Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
    If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.     Shak.

  3. To raffle.
    [Obs.] J. Webster.

Rifle

Rifle (rifle)
v. i.
Ri"fle
  1. To raffle.
    [Obs.] Chapman.
  2. To commit robbery.
    [R.] Bp. Hall.

Rifle

Rifle (rifle)
n.
Ri"fle
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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
  2. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
  3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

    Rifle pit (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.

Rifle

Rifle (rifle)
v. t.(?)
Ri"fle
  1. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
  2. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.












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