Definition of rifling

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Rifling (n.) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

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Frippery :: Frippery (a.) Trifling; contemptible.
Tilly-vally :: Tilly-vally (interj., adv., or a.) A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent..
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..
Scrapepenny :: Scrapepenny (n.) One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
Airy :: Airy (a.) Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary.
Nugify :: Nugify (v. t.) To render trifling or futile; to make silly.
Nugacity :: Nugacity (n.) Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.
Fond :: Fond (superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
Nice :: Nice (superl.) Of trifling moment; nimportant; trivial.
Nugation :: Nugation (n.) The act or practice of trifling.
Leer :: Leer (a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words..
Inconcerning :: Inconcerning (a.) Unimportant; trifling.
Childishly :: Childishly (adv.) In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
Quiddle :: Quiddle (v. i.) To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle..
Rap :: Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.
Peevish :: Peevish (a.) Silly; childish; trifling.
Tittle-tattle :: Tittle-tattle (n.) Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle..
Levity :: Levity (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.
Trifling :: Trifling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trifl.
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