Details of word RIFLE

Definition of rifle

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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.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.

Word "rifle" contains 5 letters : E F I L R

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