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Definition of rifle

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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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket..

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Bullet :: Bullet (n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm..

Fool :: Fool (v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles..

Fuss :: Fuss (n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To raffle.

Strickle :: Strickle (n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.

Rifle :: Rifle (v. i.) To raffle.

Practice :: Practice (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano..

Haberdashery :: Haberdashery (n.) The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also (Fig.), trifles..

Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

Ado :: Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles..

Dangler :: Dangler (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler..

Fuss :: Fuss (v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

Point :: Point (n.) A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.

Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.

Pococurante :: Pococurante (n.) A careless person; a trifler.

Snapper :: Snapper (n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip..

Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..