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rifle

/ˈɹaɪfəl/

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noun

A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.
(usually plural) A rifleman.
An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)
"She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document."
To commit robbery or theft.
To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
To dispose of in a raffle.
To engage in a raffle.

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