Definition of rifle

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Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon..

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Snapper :: Snapper (n.) One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip..
Peddle :: Peddle (v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
Stripe :: Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
Piddle :: Piddle (v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
Twiddle :: Twiddle (v. i.) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles..
Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Toy :: Toy (v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle..
Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler..
Putter :: Putter (v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
Rifling :: Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.
Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes..
Ball :: Ball (n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets..
Quelquechose :: Quelquechose (n.) A trifle; a kickshaw.
Fico :: Fico (n.) A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you..
Nonsense :: Nonsense (n.) Trifles; things of no importance.
Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon..
Dandle :: Dandle (v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..
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