rifles

Meaning of rifles

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 rifles

Hyphenation of rifles

ri-fles

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • rifles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of rifles

filers, fliers, lifers

Words that rhyme with rifles

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