rifledadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪfld/, U.S.

/ˈraɪf(ə)ld/

Forms: see rifle v.¹ and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rifle v.¹, -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < rifle v.¹ + -ed suffix¹.

a. Of a receptacle or place: that has been plundered, pillaged, or ransacked.In quot. 1563, of a person's face: ravaged.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] > despoiled

spoiledc1440

ravisheda1500

pilled?1518

polled1538

rifled1563

despoiled1576

pillaged1629

plundered1639

fleeceda1800

spoliated1815

spulyied1838

1563 A. Neville tr. Seneca Lamentable Trag. Œdipus iii. i. sig. Cv^v Age I sawe, with ryfled face.

1566 J. Fowler tr. P. Frarinus Oration against Vnlawfull Insurrections Protestantes sig. Hv The chiefe Cathedrall Churche S. Crosse,..they reserued standing (but yet all to rifled, rased and mangled) to preach in and to be the place of their dailye walke for recreation.

1616 A. Nixon Foot-post of Douer sig. F4 At the second seruice..the refuse of the former shall be set before him, but oftentimes like a rifled Souldier, hauing not so much as a good peece left, or like the picture of death, all bones.

?a1639 T. Carew Poems (1640) 123 As in time They had the start, so did they cull the prime Buds of invention many a hundred yeare, And left the rifled fields.

1719 E. Young Busiris i. 2 While He aloft displays his impious State, With half their rifled Kingdoms o'er his Brow.

1748 W. Shenstone Visit to Lady of Quality iv Tho' rifled groves and fetter'd streams But ill befriend a poet's dreams.

1849 ‘L. Shortfield’ Western Merchant 212 He showed how his door had been broken open, and exhibited to the people his rifled and empty strong box.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos 92 The rifled and deserted dwelling.

1929 San Antonio (Texas) Light 1 June iv. 18/2 I suffered no delay in reconveying this loot to the rifled house.

2007 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 30 Nov. 3 He persuaded her to check her rifled bedroom to see what had been taken.

b. Of an item or goods: stolen, purloined. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [adjective] > stolen

stolenc1380

stole1393

thief-stolen1551

bribed1552

lifted1559

embezzled1603

purloined1607

felon1631

rifled1638

furtive1718

stealed1883

crook1900

hot-stuffed1929

liberated1944

nicked1955

ripped1971

1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 70 Too short (neat Sir) was all thy rifled store.

1677 A. Behn Abdelazer 64 I wou'd wanton in the rifled spoils Of all that sacred Innocence and Beauty.

1684 A. Behn Poems Several Occasions 85 The Rifled Joys no more can Please, That once oblig'd your Stay.

1764 B. Y. Prime Patriot Muse 77 Gay in rifled spoils of Gallic pride.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 288 The hoarded vengeance and the rifled spoil.

1897 L. Wells Jrnl. 27 May in Jrnl. Calvert Soc. Exped. (1898) 60 This spot is six miles North-Easterly from the well where we encountered natives in April last, with rifled goods in their possession.

1975 Trans. London & Middlesex Archaeol. Soc. 26 340 Ludgate..[was] restored in stone by King John out of the rifled fabric of rich Jewish houses.

2. Chiefly poetic. Disordered, disarranged, ruffled. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > put out of order > ruffled or dishevelled

ruffled1440

toused1582

betumbled1594

rifled1638

dishevelled1647

tumbleda1657

mousled1691

fuffled1827

rufflesome1868

1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 37 The Plume a Captive weares, Whose rifled Falls are steept i' th teares Which from his last rage flow.

1677 T. Otway Titus & Berenice iii. i. sig. D2 Your rifl'd dress let me in order place.

1772 W. Jones Poems 19 Grant me to feed on beauty's rifled charms.

1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. iii. ii, in Poems Posthumous & Coll. (1851) II. 232 As a wild bee doth kiss a rifled flower, And clips its waist, and drops a little tear, Remorsefully enamoured of his prey.

a1922 A. C. T. Meynell Poems (1923) 58 No scents may pause within the garden-fold; The rifled flowers are cold as ocean-shells.

2004 S. Lovejoy Blessing of Toads 208 Sometimes the only thing betraying their presence in our surroundings is a rifled flower bed, an occasional tuft of hair, or the light, musky scent they use to attract a mate or mark their territory.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rifledadj.²

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪfld/, U.S.

/ˈraɪf(ə)ld/

Forms: 1600s– rifled, 1700s riffled; also Scottish pre-1700 reiffelled, pre-1700 rifald, pre-1700 riflet.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rifle v.³, -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < rifle v.³ + -ed suffix¹.

1. Of a firearm or its barrel: having a spirally grooved bore.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of bore

rifled1619

screwed1657

full bore1666

wreathed1681

smooth-bore1799

small-bore1833

unrifled1851

poly-grooved1858

smooth-bored1859

polygroove1863

cylinder-bored1881

1619–20 R. James Bodl. MS. James 43* 58 βïntoval, a rifled peece.

1689 Spalding Cl. Misc. II. 297 He, with a pocket rifald pistoll, shot the President in at the back.

a1751 B. Robins Math. Tracts (1761) I. 328 Of the Nature and Advantages of Rifled Barrel Pieces.

a1751 B. Robins Math. Tracts (1761) I. 331 Bullets discharged from rifled pieces.

1777 H. Brown tr. L. Euler True Princ. Gunnery 46 The riffled barrel..is known to carry much farther than a barrel not riffled.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 107 The prices for repairs of the Rifled Muskets.

1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 93 A four-pounder rifled breech-loading field-piece of crucible steel.

1900 Times 30 May 14/1 An experiment was made a few months back with an instrument know as the ‘Humane Killer’ which consisted of a rifled barrel..which was discharged by being struck with a mallet by the operator.

1967 H. Hill & E. Dodsworth Food Inspection Notes (ed. 7) 5 Greeners... Consists of short rifled barrel taking small steel-pointed bullet, finished with bell-shaped chamber.

1992 Guns Illustr. (ed. 24) 27/1 The military air rifle used by the Austrians weighed about 9¼ pounds. The 12-groove rifled barrel measured 32.8 inches in length.

2. Of a ball, shell, etc.: that has been shot from a firearm that has a rifled bore; (in later use) spec. that has been shot from a rifle.

ΚΠ

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 239 Your wound has been made by a rifled ball, and it may cost you much pain to extract it.

1835 Army & Navy Chron. 5 Nov. 353/1 Many of those who fell beneath the rifled fire of the dark-eyed Pottawatamie and the blood-thirsty Shawnee, had been intimate friends of Mr. H——.

1854 J. Boucher Volunteer Rifleman, & Rifle i. 5 An elongated rifled bullet does not roll like a spherical bullet from a smooth bore.

1904 A. G. Webster Dynamics Particles & Rigid, Elastic, & Fluid Bodies ii. 34 The twisted curves sometimes described by a base-ball, golf or tennis-ball or rifled shot are the results of actions due to the air and the rotation of the ball.

1993 J. A. Jackson Hit on House xviii. 198 The pellets had blown up the two men's hearts, but they hadn't the penetrative power of a rifled bullet, and that had saved the lives of the two young women.

3. Of a ball, shell, etc.

†a. That has been cut with grooves. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shell

armour-piercinga1686

rifled1797

high-velocity1854

smooth-bore1859

subcalibre1863

whistling1864

full-metal-jacketed1896

full-metal-jacket1898

pipsqueak1916

1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Nov. 382 (heading) Rifled Shot.

1860 Times 15 Sept. 7/6 According to an obsolete principle revived,..the shot and shell are grooved, while the gun itself retains three projecting lines in the bore throughout, to correspond with the rifled shot.

b. Having projecting studs or ribs which fit into corresponding grooves in the bore of a firearm.

ΚΠ

1843 Mechanics' Mag. 15 July 37 On Rifled Shot... The end of the solid is rejected, but the centre of gravity may be kept in place, by converting the metal cut out, into wings..that fit the grooves of the rifle.

1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 47 All rifled shells, except segment and common for B.L. field guns.

1921 Rep. Characteristics Railway Artillery (U.S.A. War Office) Appendix ii. 743 The forward rifled section of the projectile is already fitted into the grooves of the gun.

1979 G. Liddy Out of Control iv. 46 A sawn-off over-under Browning shotgun, its top barrel loaded with double-O buckshot and the lower one with a 12-gauge rifled slug.

1994 Ontario Out of Doors Sept. 69/1 (advt.) First there was the rifled slug. Now there is the sabot. Both allow hunters to achieve tighter patterns at longer ranges.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rifled
释义	rifledadj.¹ Brit. /ˈrʌɪfld/, U.S. /ˈraɪf(ə)ld/ Forms: see rifle v.¹ and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rifle v.¹, -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < rifle v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. Of a receptacle or place: that has been plundered, pillaged, or ransacked.In quot. 1563, of a person's face: ravaged. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] > despoiled spoiledc1440 ravisheda1500 pilled?1518 polled1538 rifled1563 despoiled1576 pillaged1629 plundered1639 fleeceda1800 spoliated1815 spulyied1838 1563 A. Neville tr. Seneca Lamentable Trag. Œdipus iii. i. sig. Cv^v Age I sawe, with ryfled face. 1566 J. Fowler tr. P. Frarinus Oration against Vnlawfull Insurrections Protestantes sig. Hv The chiefe Cathedrall Churche S. Crosse,..they reserued standing (but yet all to rifled, rased and mangled) to preach in and to be the place of their dailye walke for recreation. 1616 A. Nixon Foot-post of Douer sig. F4 At the second seruice..the refuse of the former shall be set before him, but oftentimes like a rifled Souldier, hauing not so much as a good peece left, or like the picture of death, all bones. ?a1639 T. Carew Poems (1640) 123 As in time They had the start, so did they cull the prime Buds of invention many a hundred yeare, And left the rifled fields. 1719 E. Young Busiris i. 2 While He aloft displays his impious State, With half their rifled Kingdoms o'er his Brow. 1748 W. Shenstone Visit to Lady of Quality iv Tho' rifled groves and fetter'd streams But ill befriend a poet's dreams. 1849 ‘L. Shortfield’ Western Merchant 212 He showed how his door had been broken open, and exhibited to the people his rifled and empty strong box. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos 92 The rifled and deserted dwelling. 1929 San Antonio (Texas) Light 1 June iv. 18/2 I suffered no delay in reconveying this loot to the rifled house. 2007 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 30 Nov. 3 He persuaded her to check her rifled bedroom to see what had been taken. b. Of an item or goods: stolen, purloined. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [adjective] > stolen stolenc1380 stole1393 thief-stolen1551 bribed1552 lifted1559 embezzled1603 purloined1607 felon1631 rifled1638 furtive1718 stealed1883 crook1900 hot-stuffed1929 liberated1944 nicked1955 ripped1971 1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 70 Too short (neat Sir) was all thy rifled store. 1677 A. Behn Abdelazer 64 I wou'd wanton in the rifled spoils Of all that sacred Innocence and Beauty. 1684 A. Behn Poems Several Occasions 85 The Rifled Joys no more can Please, That once oblig'd your Stay. 1764 B. Y. Prime Patriot Muse 77 Gay in rifled spoils of Gallic pride. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 288 The hoarded vengeance and the rifled spoil. 1897 L. Wells Jrnl. 27 May in Jrnl. Calvert Soc. Exped. (1898) 60 This spot is six miles North-Easterly from the well where we encountered natives in April last, with rifled goods in their possession. 1975 Trans. London & Middlesex Archaeol. Soc. 26 340 Ludgate..[was] restored in stone by King John out of the rifled fabric of rich Jewish houses. 2. Chiefly poetic. Disordered, disarranged, ruffled. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > put out of order > ruffled or dishevelled ruffled1440 toused1582 betumbled1594 rifled1638 dishevelled1647 tumbleda1657 mousled1691 fuffled1827 rufflesome1868 1638 W. Davenant Madagascar 37 The Plume a Captive weares, Whose rifled Falls are steept i' th teares Which from his last rage flow. 1677 T. Otway Titus & Berenice iii. i. sig. D2 Your rifl'd dress let me in order place. 1772 W. Jones Poems 19 Grant me to feed on beauty's rifled charms. 1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. iii. ii, in Poems Posthumous & Coll. (1851) II. 232 As a wild bee doth kiss a rifled flower, And clips its waist, and drops a little tear, Remorsefully enamoured of his prey. a1922 A. C. T. Meynell Poems (1923) 58 No scents may pause within the garden-fold; The rifled flowers are cold as ocean-shells. 2004 S. Lovejoy Blessing of Toads 208 Sometimes the only thing betraying their presence in our surroundings is a rifled flower bed, an occasional tuft of hair, or the light, musky scent they use to attract a mate or mark their territory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rifledadj.² Brit. /ˈrʌɪfld/, U.S. /ˈraɪf(ə)ld/ Forms: 1600s– rifled, 1700s riffled; also Scottish pre-1700 reiffelled, pre-1700 rifald, pre-1700 riflet. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rifle v.³, -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < rifle v.³ + -ed suffix¹. 1. Of a firearm or its barrel: having a spirally grooved bore. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of bore rifled1619 screwed1657 full bore1666 wreathed1681 smooth-bore1799 small-bore1833 unrifled1851 poly-grooved1858 smooth-bored1859 polygroove1863 cylinder-bored1881 1619–20 R. James Bodl. MS. James 43* 58 βïntoval, a rifled peece. 1689 Spalding Cl. Misc. II. 297 He, with a pocket rifald pistoll, shot the President in at the back. a1751 B. Robins Math. Tracts (1761) I. 328 Of the Nature and Advantages of Rifled Barrel Pieces. a1751 B. Robins Math. Tracts (1761) I. 331 Bullets discharged from rifled pieces. 1777 H. Brown tr. L. Euler True Princ. Gunnery 46 The riffled barrel..is known to carry much farther than a barrel not riffled. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 107 The prices for repairs of the Rifled Muskets. 1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 93 A four-pounder rifled breech-loading field-piece of crucible steel. 1900 Times 30 May 14/1 An experiment was made a few months back with an instrument know as the ‘Humane Killer’ which consisted of a rifled barrel..which was discharged by being struck with a mallet by the operator. 1967 H. Hill & E. Dodsworth Food Inspection Notes (ed. 7) 5 Greeners... Consists of short rifled barrel taking small steel-pointed bullet, finished with bell-shaped chamber. 1992 Guns Illustr. (ed. 24) 27/1 The military air rifle used by the Austrians weighed about 9¼ pounds. The 12-groove rifled barrel measured 32.8 inches in length. 2. Of a ball, shell, etc.: that has been shot from a firearm that has a rifled bore; (in later use) spec. that has been shot from a rifle. ΚΠ 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. vii. 239 Your wound has been made by a rifled ball, and it may cost you much pain to extract it. 1835 Army & Navy Chron. 5 Nov. 353/1 Many of those who fell beneath the rifled fire of the dark-eyed Pottawatamie and the blood-thirsty Shawnee, had been intimate friends of Mr. H——. 1854 J. Boucher Volunteer Rifleman, & Rifle i. 5 An elongated rifled bullet does not roll like a spherical bullet from a smooth bore. 1904 A. G. Webster Dynamics Particles & Rigid, Elastic, & Fluid Bodies ii. 34 The twisted curves sometimes described by a base-ball, golf or tennis-ball or rifled shot are the results of actions due to the air and the rotation of the ball. 1993 J. A. Jackson Hit on House xviii. 198 The pellets had blown up the two men's hearts, but they hadn't the penetrative power of a rifled bullet, and that had saved the lives of the two young women. 3. Of a ball, shell, etc. †a. That has been cut with grooves. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shell armour-piercinga1686 rifled1797 high-velocity1854 smooth-bore1859 subcalibre1863 whistling1864 full-metal-jacketed1896 full-metal-jacket1898 pipsqueak1916 1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Nov. 382 (heading) Rifled Shot. 1860 Times 15 Sept. 7/6 According to an obsolete principle revived,..the shot and shell are grooved, while the gun itself retains three projecting lines in the bore throughout, to correspond with the rifled shot. b. Having projecting studs or ribs which fit into corresponding grooves in the bore of a firearm. ΚΠ 1843 Mechanics' Mag. 15 July 37 On Rifled Shot... The end of the solid is rejected, but the centre of gravity may be kept in place, by converting the metal cut out, into wings..that fit the grooves of the rifle. 1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 47 All rifled shells, except segment and common for B.L. field guns. 1921 Rep. Characteristics Railway Artillery (U.S.A. War Office) Appendix ii. 743 The forward rifled section of the projectile is already fitted into the grooves of the gun. 1979 G. Liddy Out of Control iv. 46 A sawn-off over-under Browning shotgun, its top barrel loaded with double-O buckshot and the lower one with a 12-gauge rifled slug. 1994 Ontario Out of Doors Sept. 69/1 (advt.) First there was the rifled slug. Now there is the sabot. Both allow hunters to achieve tighter patterns at longer ranges. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1563adj.²1619
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