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What is the meaning of rifle?

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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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket., A body of soldiers armed with rifles., A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes., To grove; to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.

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Adj. 1. rifled - of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel smoothbore, unrifled - of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel

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