rifle

Definitions

1. 1.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.
2. 2.To raffle. [Obs.] J. Webster.
3. 3.To raffle. [Obs.] Chapman.
4. 4.To commit robbery. [R.] Bp. Hall.
5. 5.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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
6. 6.pl. (Mil.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
7. 7.A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. Rifle pit (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.
8. 8.To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
9. 9.To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is rifle.

• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket called?
• What is pl. (Mil.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles called?
• What is a strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. Rifle pit (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters called?
• What is to grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon called?