2syllables
rifles
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Definitions ofrifles
1noun
- A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.
- (usually plural) A rifleman.
- An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
1verb
- 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)
Example: "She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document."
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To dispose of in a raffle.
- To engage in a raffle.
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