Definition of Rifle

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Definition of Rifle

Rifle

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

To strip; to rob; to pillage.

To raffle.

To commit robbery.

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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.

A body of soldiers armed with rifles.

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.

To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

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Rifle Quotations

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P. J. O'Rourke

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
Dick Gregory

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
Al Sharpton

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
Dale Earnhardt

Rifle Translations

rifle in Dutch is geweer, roer
rifle in French is fusil, carabine
rifle in German is Gewehr
rifle in Italian is fucile, carabina
rifle in Portuguese is espingarda
rifle in Spanish is fusil, rifle, escopeta, carabina

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