rifle1
noun ˈrʌɪf(ə)lˈraɪfəl
1A gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
a hunting rifle- At this time, the Marine Corps began to stress rifle marksmanship.
- For many of the British the battle resembled Mons: determined infantry assaults prepared by heavy shellfire, met with accurate rifle fire.
- Imagine firing a high-powered rifle in a mountainous area; people within five kilometers of the shot would hear it.
- With the exception of handguns that fire rifle cartridges, copper fouling isn't a big problem for handgunners.
- If you might have to fire a rifle or shotgun indoors, keep your hearing protection near the gun.
- By today's standards, the Winchester 1886 was a huge rifle weighing about nine pounds.
- Officers believe all five victims were shot at random from a distance with high-velocity bullets probably fired by a rifle.
- The new Remington 710 is a moderately priced, entry-level, bolt-action hunting rifle.
- If infantry attacks on foot, defending troops cut off infantry from tanks and destroy it with machine-gun and automatic rifle fire.
- I used to be a pretty decent rifle shot when I was at camp.
- Berlitz heard two rifle shots at his back and braced himself for the pain.
- We pondered and poured over catalogs until we knew every rifle then available.
- Senators like Jean Carnahan went out of their way to brandish their hunting rifles.
- Drummond hobbled off, returning with a cigar in his mouth and an automatic rifle in his hands.
- Several Kalashnikov assault rifles were found at the scene.
- Police officers carrying semi-automatic rifles rode the capital's Metro subway trains.
- Another development applied to both handgun and rifle bullets is a " bonding " process.
- With scope and the supplied nylon sling, the empty rifle weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces.
- Maurice snorted, moving the cloth up and down the gleaming rifle barrel.
- Squeeze or squeezing of the trigger is the third element of rifle marksmanship.
- 1.1rifles Troops armed with rifles.in names the Burma Rifles
- Johnston initially intended to create a black battalion that would include a Mobile company comprising Gilmer's rifles and additional troops.
- Prussian military rifles first mounted sword bayonets in 1787 and the armies of most other countries followed suit over the following 30 or 40 years.
- On the Moroccan side, security services with shotguns and rifles with fixed bayonets have met migrant workers.
verb ˈrʌɪf(ə)lˈraɪfəl
1usually as adjective rifledwith object Make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
a line of replacement rifled barrels- The barrel has a rifled choke that shoots bullets exceedingly well, but still produces useful shot patterns, perfect for aerial trick shooting.
- From the mid-19th century all military weapons had rifled barrels and the term rifle was restricted to the long-barrelled weapon of the infantryman.
- They too either were smooth bored or rifled and had a range up to a 1,000 yds.
- The 1008B has a rifled steel barrel and a fully adjustable rear sight.
- Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance.
- All that, plus its finely rifled .177 caliber barrel, contribute a lot to this pistol's terrific precision.
- The term is, however, also correctly applied to heavy rifled ordnance of the howitzer class used for coastal defence by some nations, though few ever saw use in 1939-45.
- Yes, you can fire lead bullets in the S&W's conventionally rifled barrel.
- The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle.
- The SAS Slug Gun has a rifled 22-inch barrel with cantilever scope base.
- All Gamo air rifles have a rifled steel barrel, trigger safety and spring-piston action and are grooved for a scope.
- The barrel is rifled 1: 54-inches, with a very nice internal finish, testified to by smooth loading and easy cleanup.
- Shorter handgun-length barrels are rifled through a cutting process known as broaching.
- According to the Scanalyzers, it lacks rifled grooves of any sort in the barrel.
- Every Rossi rifle barrel is button rifled for maximum accuracy.
- Rossi Firearm's fully rifled slug gun is button rifled, equipped with factory porting and features TruGlo sights.
- And their weapons were grooved, or rifled, to spin the ball for greater accuracy.
- Since it has a conventionally rifled barrel and fully supports the cartridge case, it is an ideal tool for investigating a new handloading challenge
- Anschutz barrels are button rifled, target crowned, and chambered to minimum dimensions.
- The barrel can be rifled and this rifling causes the projectile to spin, increasing its accuracy.
2with object and adverbial of direction Hit or kick (a ball) hard and straight.
Ferguson rifled home his fourth goal of the season- United's midfielder threatened to shoot with his left, but then turned inside Ben Watson's tackle and rifled the ball into the roof of the net with his right.
- However, he got a second bite of the cherry and this time made no mistake, rifling the ball in off the base of the post.
- Jose Reyes makes a diagonal run into the box from the left wing, Thierry Henry pokes a brilliant pass into his path and the young Spaniard rifles the ball into the side-netting.
- Dixon concentrated on quick-recovering skills of the goalkeepers as he constantly rifled the ball from angles.
- In the 16th minute, Paul Foley slipped the ball to John Mullane and, in full flight, the De La Salle man rifled the ball to the net.
- They got the early goal they required in the 50th minute when a corner taken by Daly was punched clear by Carey but it only reached Jonathan Sparling who rifled the ball to the net.
- Without any effort to disguise his intentions, Eoin Kelly stepped up to calmly rifle the ball to the net.
- Striker Pav Singh picked up the ball down the right channel, shimmied inside, created space past a couple of defenders, and rifled the ball left-footed into the bottom right corner.
- He picked up the loose ball, cut inside then out onto his left foot, before rifling the ball past Julian Speroni into the far corner.
- Keeper Robert Moore seemed to have it lowered but somehow lost it and the loose ball was rifled home gleefully by John Coleman.
- New Reds striker, Barry Patton saw his initial shot blocked, but the rebound fell to Anthony Crawford in the box and he rifled the ball in off the crossbar from 14 yards out.
- He could rifle that ball to the outside as fast as anybody.
- He was high on some passes and rifled the ball too hard on some short routes.
- Jamie Barrow concluded the scoring when he scampered onto Smith's pass to rifle the ball past Knowles.
- Doran rifled the ball past a helpless Loney in the Armagh goal to open up a four-point lead.
- Ignoring the supporting Johnny McBride, the Loup player picked out the unmarked Bradley who rifled the ball to the net.
- The winner was scored in the 69th minute when a corner from Giles O'Grady was only half cleared by the Park defence to the edge of their box, and it fell to J P Leahy who rifled the ball inside the near post.
- Steve Oleksewycz rifled the ball into the net in the 14th minute from the narrowest of angles.
- A minute later the visitors were punished for their miss when Lennon took a pass on the turn and rifled the ball into the right-hand corner to give Monksland the lead.
- Esteban Cambiasso rifles the ball into the net for Inter, but the referee had already blown for a foul by Christian Vieri.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from French rifler 'graze, scratch', of Germanic origin. The earliest noun usage was in rifle gun, which had ‘rifles’ or spiral grooves cut into the inside of the barrel.
The Old French rifler meant both ‘to plunder’ and to ‘to scratch’. The plunder sense developed via ‘search for valuables’ into ‘to search thoroughly’ (mid 17th century). The word was then re-borrowed from French in the ‘scratch’ sense for the making of grooves in the barrel of a gun (mid 17th century). These rifled guns then became known as rifles (mid 18th century). Riff-raff (Middle English), formerly written as riff and raff, is probably also from rifler combined with raffler ‘to carry off’. The sense ‘disreputable person’ would have developed in much the same way as vulgar and hoi poloi.
Rhymes
Eiffel, stifle, trifle
rifle2
verb ˈrʌɪf(ə)lˈraɪfəl
[no object]1Search through something in a hurried way in order to find or steal something.
she rifled through the cassette tapeswith object she rifled the house for money- Two cellphone corporations rifled through the electronic files of at least one rival.
- The men demanded the keys to their new Skoda Octavia car, then locked them both in a downstairs room while they rifled through drawers.
- Three intruders who used a variety of ruses to gain entry into sheltered flats in Devizes, rifled through elderly people's belongings leaving such a mess that it is not known if anything was stolen.
- City Prosecutor's Office spokesman Sergei Marchenko said the killer or killers had apparently rifled through Kushnir's possessions, leaving the apartment in disarray.
- An inspector rifled through discarded bin bags outside her home in Openshaw and is believed to have found a handwritten letter which had her name written on it.
- Whoever did it was obviously looking for cash because they went through all my possessions and rifled through all the drawers in the house.
- Thieves forced their way through a garage door, went upstairs and rifled through drawers in the main bedroom.
- As the victim, who is partially-sighted, sat helpless in her wheelchair, the men rifled through all the rooms in the house before stealing money from her handbag.
- A house on the Smalls Road in Warrenpoint was broken into just before 3.40 pm and rifled through.
- He then stood and rifled through the contents, taking cash, while warning the pensioner to ‘keep quiet’ because he ‘had a knife’.
- The personal invasion is highly unsettling, especially if they have rifled through personal papers or clothing.
- He said that the pair met up and rifled through the sack and Hyland took the euros which they then cashed at a currency exchange in a Post Office in Lancaster.
- Inside the bombed-out palace, troops from Attack Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, rifled through documents and inventoried the building.
- One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
- One man threatened him with the air gun, while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a Sony mobile phone and a disposable cigarette lighter.
- Meanwhile, an elderly woman was left shocked after a crook claiming to be a district nurse rifled through her purse.
- They rifled through two handbags and a desk taking all the cash they found, then stole van keys from the hall.
- He complained that officers rifled through his wife's underwear drawer.
- I'm sure dozens of people have rifled through my diaries over the years.
- He then managed to keep her occupied while he rifled through the property in search of the cash savings.
rummage, search, hunt, forage, sift, rakeransack, comb, turn upside down, scour- 1.1with object Steal.he rifled the dead man's possessions
- Sure enough, the surveillance set-up soon captured the toff ne'er-do-well rifling Allen's wallet.
- The 18-year-old thug snatched his victim's bag and rifled his wallet before punching him in the face on the bridge across the River Avon.
- It is believed the thieves rifle letters for money or anything they can cash in, with birthday cards particular targets.
- Dressed in his Garda tunic, the thief asked the woman for identification and rummaged through her handbag before rifling some cash.
burgle, rob, steal from, loot, raid, plunder, sack, ransack, pillage
Origin
Middle English: from Old French rifler 'graze, plunder', of Germanic origin.
rifle1
nounˈraɪfəlˈrīfəl
1A gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
- At this time, the Marine Corps began to stress rifle marksmanship.
- Maurice snorted, moving the cloth up and down the gleaming rifle barrel.
- If infantry attacks on foot, defending troops cut off infantry from tanks and destroy it with machine-gun and automatic rifle fire.
- By today's standards, the Winchester 1886 was a huge rifle weighing about nine pounds.
- Another development applied to both handgun and rifle bullets is a " bonding " process.
- Several Kalashnikov assault rifles were found at the scene.
- Senators like Jean Carnahan went out of their way to brandish their hunting rifles.
- Berlitz heard two rifle shots at his back and braced himself for the pain.
- The new Remington 710 is a moderately priced, entry-level, bolt-action hunting rifle.
- With the exception of handguns that fire rifle cartridges, copper fouling isn't a big problem for handgunners.
- Drummond hobbled off, returning with a cigar in his mouth and an automatic rifle in his hands.
- Officers believe all five victims were shot at random from a distance with high-velocity bullets probably fired by a rifle.
- Police officers carrying semi-automatic rifles rode the capital's Metro subway trains.
- I used to be a pretty decent rifle shot when I was at camp.
- For many of the British the battle resembled Mons: determined infantry assaults prepared by heavy shellfire, met with accurate rifle fire.
- If you might have to fire a rifle or shotgun indoors, keep your hearing protection near the gun.
- Squeeze or squeezing of the trigger is the third element of rifle marksmanship.
- Imagine firing a high-powered rifle in a mountainous area; people within five kilometers of the shot would hear it.
- With scope and the supplied nylon sling, the empty rifle weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces.
- We pondered and poured over catalogs until we knew every rifle then available.
- 1.1rifles Troops armed with rifles.
- On the Moroccan side, security services with shotguns and rifles with fixed bayonets have met migrant workers.
- Johnston initially intended to create a black battalion that would include a Mobile company comprising Gilmer's rifles and additional troops.
- Prussian military rifles first mounted sword bayonets in 1787 and the armies of most other countries followed suit over the following 30 or 40 years.
verbˈraɪfəlˈrīfəl
1usually as adjective rifledwith object Make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
a line of replacement rifled barrels- Since it has a conventionally rifled barrel and fully supports the cartridge case, it is an ideal tool for investigating a new handloading challenge
- From the mid-19th century all military weapons had rifled barrels and the term rifle was restricted to the long-barrelled weapon of the infantryman.
- The 1008B has a rifled steel barrel and a fully adjustable rear sight.
- The barrel has a rifled choke that shoots bullets exceedingly well, but still produces useful shot patterns, perfect for aerial trick shooting.
- They too either were smooth bored or rifled and had a range up to a 1,000 yds.
- All that, plus its finely rifled .177 caliber barrel, contribute a lot to this pistol's terrific precision.
- Yes, you can fire lead bullets in the S&W's conventionally rifled barrel.
- All Gamo air rifles have a rifled steel barrel, trigger safety and spring-piston action and are grooved for a scope.
- The barrel can be rifled and this rifling causes the projectile to spin, increasing its accuracy.
- And their weapons were grooved, or rifled, to spin the ball for greater accuracy.
- The SAS Slug Gun has a rifled 22-inch barrel with cantilever scope base.
- Every Rossi rifle barrel is button rifled for maximum accuracy.
- Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance.
- According to the Scanalyzers, it lacks rifled grooves of any sort in the barrel.
- The term is, however, also correctly applied to heavy rifled ordnance of the howitzer class used for coastal defence by some nations, though few ever saw use in 1939-45.
- Rossi Firearm's fully rifled slug gun is button rifled, equipped with factory porting and features TruGlo sights.
- Anschutz barrels are button rifled, target crowned, and chambered to minimum dimensions.
- Shorter handgun-length barrels are rifled through a cutting process known as broaching.
- The barrel is rifled 1: 54-inches, with a very nice internal finish, testified to by smooth loading and easy cleanup.
- The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle.
2with object and adverbial of direction Hit, throw, or kick (a ball or puck) hard and straight.
he rifled a hard, rising shot from just inside the blue line- In the 16th minute, Paul Foley slipped the ball to John Mullane and, in full flight, the De La Salle man rifled the ball to the net.
- New Reds striker, Barry Patton saw his initial shot blocked, but the rebound fell to Anthony Crawford in the box and he rifled the ball in off the crossbar from 14 yards out.
- United's midfielder threatened to shoot with his left, but then turned inside Ben Watson's tackle and rifled the ball into the roof of the net with his right.
- Doran rifled the ball past a helpless Loney in the Armagh goal to open up a four-point lead.
- The winner was scored in the 69th minute when a corner from Giles O'Grady was only half cleared by the Park defence to the edge of their box, and it fell to J P Leahy who rifled the ball inside the near post.
- Steve Oleksewycz rifled the ball into the net in the 14th minute from the narrowest of angles.
- He could rifle that ball to the outside as fast as anybody.
- He was high on some passes and rifled the ball too hard on some short routes.
- A minute later the visitors were punished for their miss when Lennon took a pass on the turn and rifled the ball into the right-hand corner to give Monksland the lead.
- Striker Pav Singh picked up the ball down the right channel, shimmied inside, created space past a couple of defenders, and rifled the ball left-footed into the bottom right corner.
- Ignoring the supporting Johnny McBride, the Loup player picked out the unmarked Bradley who rifled the ball to the net.
- Jamie Barrow concluded the scoring when he scampered onto Smith's pass to rifle the ball past Knowles.
- However, he got a second bite of the cherry and this time made no mistake, rifling the ball in off the base of the post.
- Jose Reyes makes a diagonal run into the box from the left wing, Thierry Henry pokes a brilliant pass into his path and the young Spaniard rifles the ball into the side-netting.
- Esteban Cambiasso rifles the ball into the net for Inter, but the referee had already blown for a foul by Christian Vieri.
- He picked up the loose ball, cut inside then out onto his left foot, before rifling the ball past Julian Speroni into the far corner.
- Without any effort to disguise his intentions, Eoin Kelly stepped up to calmly rifle the ball to the net.
- Dixon concentrated on quick-recovering skills of the goalkeepers as he constantly rifled the ball from angles.
- Keeper Robert Moore seemed to have it lowered but somehow lost it and the loose ball was rifled home gleefully by John Coleman.
- They got the early goal they required in the 50th minute when a corner taken by Daly was punched clear by Carey but it only reached Jonathan Sparling who rifled the ball to the net.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from French rifler ‘graze, scratch’, of Germanic origin. The earliest noun usage was in rifle gun, which had ‘rifles’ or spiral grooves cut into the inside of the barrel.
rifle2
verbˈraɪfəlˈrīfəl
[no object]1Search through something in a hurried way in order to find or steal something.
she rifled through the cassette tapeswith object they rifled the house for money- Inside the bombed-out palace, troops from Attack Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry, rifled through documents and inventoried the building.
- Meanwhile, an elderly woman was left shocked after a crook claiming to be a district nurse rifled through her purse.
- A house on the Smalls Road in Warrenpoint was broken into just before 3.40 pm and rifled through.
- They rifled through two handbags and a desk taking all the cash they found, then stole van keys from the hall.
- An inspector rifled through discarded bin bags outside her home in Openshaw and is believed to have found a handwritten letter which had her name written on it.
- He said that the pair met up and rifled through the sack and Hyland took the euros which they then cashed at a currency exchange in a Post Office in Lancaster.
- City Prosecutor's Office spokesman Sergei Marchenko said the killer or killers had apparently rifled through Kushnir's possessions, leaving the apartment in disarray.
- One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
- Whoever did it was obviously looking for cash because they went through all my possessions and rifled through all the drawers in the house.
- The personal invasion is highly unsettling, especially if they have rifled through personal papers or clothing.
- Thieves forced their way through a garage door, went upstairs and rifled through drawers in the main bedroom.
- As the victim, who is partially-sighted, sat helpless in her wheelchair, the men rifled through all the rooms in the house before stealing money from her handbag.
- He then stood and rifled through the contents, taking cash, while warning the pensioner to ‘keep quiet’ because he ‘had a knife’.
- He then managed to keep her occupied while he rifled through the property in search of the cash savings.
- The men demanded the keys to their new Skoda Octavia car, then locked them both in a downstairs room while they rifled through drawers.
- I'm sure dozens of people have rifled through my diaries over the years.
- He complained that officers rifled through his wife's underwear drawer.
- One man threatened him with the air gun, while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a Sony mobile phone and a disposable cigarette lighter.
- Two cellphone corporations rifled through the electronic files of at least one rival.
- Three intruders who used a variety of ruses to gain entry into sheltered flats in Devizes, rifled through elderly people's belongings leaving such a mess that it is not known if anything was stolen.
rummage, search, hunt, forage, sift, rake- 1.1with object Steal.the lieutenant's servant rifled the dead man's possessions
- Dressed in his Garda tunic, the thief asked the woman for identification and rummaged through her handbag before rifling some cash.
- Sure enough, the surveillance set-up soon captured the toff ne'er-do-well rifling Allen's wallet.
- The 18-year-old thug snatched his victim's bag and rifled his wallet before punching him in the face on the bridge across the River Avon.
- It is believed the thieves rifle letters for money or anything they can cash in, with birthday cards particular targets.
burgle, rob, steal from, loot, raid, plunder, sack, ransack, pillage
Origin
Middle English: from Old French rifler ‘graze, plunder’, of Germanic origin.