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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 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.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. Related Definitions: Accuracy, And, Armed, As, Away, Ball, Barrel, Bear, Body, By, Cannon, Carry, Channel, Commit, Covered, Emery, Especially, Fire, Firearm, For, Force, Giving, Groove, Grooved, Grove, Gun, Has, Inside, Insuring, Internally, Is, It, Material, Military, Motion, Musket, Of, Off, Or, Pillage, Raffle, Rifle, Rob, Robbery, Rotary, See, Seize, Sharpening, Similar, Snatch, Spiral, Strip, Superseded, The, Thus, To, Used, Whet, Whose, With, Wood

Rifle Quotations 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 A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. Theodore Roosevelt Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. P. J. O'Rourke Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald. John Sherman Cooper The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like. John Sherman Cooper

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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