rifle

Meaning of rifle

noun
  1. A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.
  2. (usually plural) A rifleman.
  3. An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
  4. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
verb
  1. To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)
    She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
  2. To commit robbery or theft.
  3. To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
  4. To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
  5. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
  6. To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
  7. To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
  8. To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
  9. To dispose of in a raffle.
  10. To engage in a raffle.

Information about rifle

Hyphenation of rifle

ri-fle

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • rifle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

rifle synonyms

Meaning plunder:

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

Meaning go:

go

Translation of rifle

Anagrams of rifle

Filer, filer, flier, flrie, lifer

Words that rhyme with rifle

nifle, trifle, overstifle, restifle, stifle

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