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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Point :: Point (n.) A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.
Putter :: Putter (v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..
Dilly-dally :: Dilly-dally (v. i.) To loiter or trifle; to waste time.
Toy :: Toy (v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
Trinket :: Trinket (v. t.) A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
Blab :: Blab (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion..
Rifle :: 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket..
Minie Ball :: Minie ball () A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel..
Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3..
Rifleman :: Rifleman (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
Fuss :: Fuss (n.) A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
Armory :: Armory (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords..
Fuss :: Fuss (v. i.) To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.
Rush :: Rush (n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
Rifle :: Rifle (v. i.) To commit robbery.
Range :: Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced..
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..
Song :: Song (n.) A trifle.
Conversion :: Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles..
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