Definition of rifling

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Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

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Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Frivolous :: Frivolous (a.) Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters.
Trifling :: Trifling (a.) Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair..
Twist :: Twist (n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
Toyful :: Toyful (a.) Full of trifling play.
Bauble :: Bauble (n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything..
Serious :: Serious (a.) Important; weighty; not trifling; grave.
Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Popinjay :: Popinjay (n.) A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb..
Panic :: Panic (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic..
Quibblingly :: Quibblingly (adv.) Triflingly; evasively.
Sabot :: Sabot (n.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling..
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Nugatory :: Nugatory (a.) Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.
Coquette :: Coquette (n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men..
Fond :: Fond (superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
Prate :: Prate (n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Scrapepenny :: Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
Petty :: Petty (superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince..
Stick-seed :: Stickler (v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony..
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