Word Meaning

rifle definition and meaning

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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.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.

Crossword clues for rifle

- A firearm
- Cavalry weapon
- Ferret (through)
- Firearm
- Firearm with long barrel
- Flier makes soldier’s firearm
- Gun fired from shoulder level
- Gun shot from shoulder level
- Hunter’s firearm
- Hunting weapon
- Long firearm
- Long-barrelled firearm
- Ransack contents of drawer, if legal
- Rummage
- Rummage (through)
- Search through drawers for weapon
- Soldier’s weapon
- Type of gun
- Weapon
- Weapon causes flier to crash