rifle: betydning og definisjoner

A firearm with a rifled bore, designed to be fired from the shoulder.

An artillery piece or naval gun with such spiral grooves.

Troops armed with rifles.

To cut spiral grooves within (a gun barrel, for example).

To search with intent to steal.

To ransack or plunder; pillage.

To rob: rifle a safe.

To search vigorously: rifling through my drawers to find matching socks.