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rifle

('r/aI/f/@/l )

a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore(noun.artifact)

Example:
He lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired.

source: wordnet30
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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.(noun)

source: webster1913

steal goods; take as spoils(verb.possession)

Synonym:
despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip

source: wordnet30
go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way(verb.contact)

Example:
Who rifled through my desk drawers?.

Synonym:
go

source: wordnet30
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.(verb)

source: webster1913
To raffle.(verb)

source: webster1913
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.(verb)

source: webster1913

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