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▪ I. rifled, ppl. a.1|ˈraɪf(ə)ld|
[f. rifle v.1]
†1. Disordered, disarranged, ruffled. Obs.
1637Davenant Madagascar (1638) 37 The Plume a Captive weares, Whose rifled Falls are steept i' th teares Which from his last rage flow. 1677Otway Titus & Berenice 27 Your rifl'd dress let me in order place.
2. Plundered, pillaged, ransacked.
1719Young Busiris i. i, While he aloft displays his impious state, With half their rifled kingdoms o'er his brow. 1748Shenstone Visit to a Lady of Quality iv, Tho' rifled groves and fetter'd streams But ill befriend a poet's dreams. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 288 The hoarded vengeance and the rifled spoil. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos 92 The rifled and deserted dwelling.
▪ II. rifled, ppl. a.2|ˈrəɪf(ə)ld|
Also 7 rifald, 8 riffled.
[f. rifle v.3 1.]
1. Of firearms: Having a spirally grooved bore.
1689Spalding Cl. Misc. II. 297 He, with a pocket rifald pistoll, shot the President in at the back. a1751B. Robins Math Tracts (1761) I. 328 Of the Nature and Advantages of Rifled Barrel Pieces. Ibid. 331 Bullets discharged from rifled pieces. 1777H. Brown tr. Euler's Princ. Gunnery 46 The riffled barrel..is known to carry much farther than a barrel not riffled. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 107 The prices for repairs of the Rifled Muskets. 1868U.S. Rep. Munitions War 93 A four-pounder rifled breech-loading field-piece of crucible steel.
2. Of balls, shells, etc.:
†a. Grooved. Obs.
b. Having projecting studs or ribs which fit into the grooves in the bore.
The precise sense in the first quot. is not clear.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 98 Your wound has been made by a rifled ball, and it may cause you much pain to extract it. 1797Nicholson's Jrnl. Nat. Phil. I. 382 Rifled Shot. 1879Man. Artill. Exerc. 47 All rifled shells, except segment and common for B.L. field guns. |