Canadian English Meaning of rifle
rifle
Other Canadian English words related to rifle
- Arquebus
- Blunderbuss
- Breechloader
- carbine
- Culverin
- Field gun
- Firelock
- flintlock
- harquebus
- Matchlock
- musket
- semi-automatic
- smoothbore
- Assault rifle
- automatic
- Derringer
- Firearm
- Machine gun
- repeater
- Revolver
- self-loader
- Six-gun
- Six-shooter
- Submachine gun
- Tommy gun
- twenty-two
- arm
- forty-five
- cat
- rod
- Roscoe
- Sidearm
- Small arm
- speargun
Nearest Words of rifle
Definitions and Meaning of rifle in English
rifle (n)
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
rifle (v)
steal goods; take as spoils
go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
rifle (v. t.)
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
To strip; to rob; to pillage.
To raffle.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
rifle (v. i.)
To raffle.
To commit robbery.
rifle (n.)
A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
FAQs About the word rifle
rifle
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore, steal goods; take as spoils, go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in
Arquebus,Blunderbuss,Breechloader ,carbine,Culverin,Field gun,Firelock,flintlock,harquebus,Matchlock
hide,lose,abandon
riffraff => riffraff, riffler => crook, riffle => Riffle, riffian => Riffian, riff => riff,
