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Definition of rifle :
1. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
2. 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
4. To commit robbery.
5. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
6. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
7. To strip; to rob; to pillage.
8. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
Synonyms:
exit, work, rake, sack, choke, low-powered, kick the bucket, Mauser, extend, plunder, endure, blend, discase, snatch, rook and rabbit, cash in one's chips, BB gun, locomote, stick, pass, Sharps, sort, Berdan, pillage, fail, Francini-Martini, recoilless, Krag-Jorgensen, dredge, break down, reave, start, perish, Berthier, buy the farm, rob, decease, Garrand, AK-47, deprive, Sober, M-1, operate, search out, snuff it, belong, sound, lead, move, denude, bare, live, proceed, dismantle, unclothe, Mannlicher, ransack, Peabody-Martini, Lee straight-pull, undress, violate, strip down, function, Schulhof, disinvest, become, run short, depart, last, seek out, uncase, disrobe, go away, semi-automatic, M-16, clean, hold out, burgle, get going, M-14, peel, leach, give out, Enfield, air rifle, travel, walk off with, repeating, die, scavenge, iron, 0.45, double-barrelled, help yourself to something, plump, break, blend in, pass away, rape, denudate, match, muzzle-loading, mug, automatic, hunt down, run low, live on, loot, go bad, conk out, conk, derringer, go through, breech-loading, run, hold up, Lee-Metford, give way, Johnson, expire, survive, Springfield, saloon, troll, pop off, look out for, Lebel, spoil, air gun, drop dead, go, give-up the ghost, Minie, hunt, foray, dig, get, run away with, divest, Martini-Henry, croak, despoil, high-powered, Schneider repeating, pick through, steal, Chassepot, fit, strip
search (part of speech: verb)
forage, sift, peer, scour, probe, pry, winnow, search, rummage, seek, comb, look for, peek
weapon (part of speech: noun)
Colt, bullet, ammunition, arrow, blowpipe, ax, trigger, Sidewinder, rapier, carbine, Browning, battery, shell, artillery, stiletto, peashooter, torpedo, ordnance, heater, sword, revolver, firearm, flamethrower, machine gun, dagger, javelin, spear, shooter, handgun, broadsword, blowgun, muzzle, bayonet, machete, rocket, mortar, bilbo, gun, mace, knife, weapon, bow and arrow, piece, armament, repeater, blunderbuss, Remington, saber, cannon, club, missile, lance, scimitar, luger, weaponry, bomber, musket, boomerang, Winchester, shotgun, pistol, claymore, cutlass, bazooka, howitzer
Usage examples:
- He's off'n his feed with a rifle," explained Johnny. - "Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Bar-20", Clarence Edward Mulford.
- " Very good, go," I replied, calmly taking up my rifle. - "An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet", A. Henry Savage Landor.
- I wish I had my rifle and the free use of my legs. - "The Boy Trapper", Harry Castlemon.