Definition of rifle

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Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes..

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Blab :: Blab (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion..
Rifleman :: Rifleman (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense..
Muzzle-loading :: Muzzle-loading (a.) Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle..
Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To trifle.
But :: But (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
Whimwham :: Whimwham (n.) A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack.
Whitworth Gun :: Whitworth gun () A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England..
Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.
Rifled :: Rifled (imp. & p. p.) of Rifl.
Yager :: Yager (n.) In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army..
Trifle :: Trifle (n.) A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair..
Stripe :: Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Dangler :: Dangler (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler..
Snapper :: Snapper (n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip..
Rifling :: Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
Quiddler :: Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.
Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles..
Polygrooved :: Polygrooved (a.) Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling)..
Voltigeur :: Voltigeur (n.) One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
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