Results for rifle
Definitions of rifle:
part of speech: noun
A musket with a barrel spirally grooved.
part of speech: noun
A firearm with the barrel spirally grooved for the purpose of insuring greater accuracy in fire.
part of speech: verb transitive
To carry off by force: to strip, to rob.
part of speech: verb transitive
To groove spirally, as a gun- barrel.
part of speech: verb
To ransack; to sweep all away; to pillage; to plunder.
part of speech: verb
part of speech: verb intransitive
part of speech: noun
RIFLER.
part of speech: noun
A musket or hand- gun, the inside of the barrel of which is grooved or formed with spiral channels in order to make the bullet revolve.
Usage examples for rifle:
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Derby knocked the rifle out of his hands, but there was no further danger of its being fired, for the man had fainted.
"The Title Market", Emily Post -
He caught his rifle up and held it at ready as he moved off.
"A Yankee Flier in Italy", Rutherford G. Montgomery -
From it there was no escape, except in the face of his rifle
"Baree, Son of Kazan", James Oliver Curwood -
I wish I had my rifle and the free use of my legs.
"The Boy Trapper", Harry Castlemon