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

To channel or groove.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To commit robbery.

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:

• 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