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rifling

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rifle  \Ri"fle\,  v.  t.  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rifling  \Ri"fling\,  n. 
  a  The  act  or  process  of  making  the  grooves  in  a  rifled 
  cannon  or  gun  barrel. 
  b  The  system  of  grooves  in  a  rifled  gun  barrel  or  cannon. 
 
  {Shunt  rifling},  rifling  for  cannon,  in  which  one  side  of  the 
  groove  is  made  deeper  than  the  other  to  facilitate 
  loading  with  shot  having  projections  which  enter  by  the 
  deeper  part  of  the  grooves. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rifling 
  n  :  the  cutting  of  spiral  grooves  on  the  inside  of  the  barrel  of 
  a  firearm  [syn:  {grooving}]




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