Rifle

Definition:

(v. i.) To commit robbery.
(v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
(v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.
(v. t.) To raffle.
(v. i.) To raffle.
(n.) 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
(n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
(n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
(v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
(v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

Compare rifle with other words:

rifle vs. weapon

nifle vs. rifle

rifle vs. rille

rifle vs. trifle

catapult vs. rifle

cabbage vs. rifle

mitrailleur vs. rifle

rifle vs. yager

jaeger vs. rifle

rifle vs. swindle

chassepot vs. rifle

rifle vs. rifleman

gunstock vs. rifle

foresight vs. rifle

rifle vs. sharpshooter

rifle vs. stack

matchlock vs. rifle

ransack vs. rifle

rifle vs. rifler

musket vs. rifle

bayonet vs. rifle

rifle vs. robbery

rifle vs. strike

range vs. rifle

rifle vs. spiral

riffle vs. rifle

quickly vs. rifle

rifle vs. rifling

rifle vs. scythe

rifle vs. sharpen

emery vs. rifle

rifle vs. strip

accuracy vs. rifle

rifle vs. rifled

firearm vs. rifle

rifle vs. shotgun

pistol vs. rifle

carbine vs. rifle

rifle vs. stock