rifle
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
rifle
n 1: a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore;
"he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn:
{plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle},
{ransack}, {pillage}, {foray}]
2: go through in search of something; search through someone's
belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my
desk drawers?" [syn: {rifle}, {go}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rifled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Rifling}.] [F. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain
origin. CF. {Raff}.]
1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
off.
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Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --Pope.
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2. To strip; to rob; to pillage. --Piers Plowman.
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Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --Shak.
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3. To raffle. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rifle \Ri"fle\, n. [Akin to Dan. rifle, or riffel, the rifle of
a gun, a chamfer (cf. riffel, riffelb["o]sse, a rifle gun,
rifle to rifle a gun, G. riefeln, riefen, to chamfer,
groove), and E. rive. See {Rive}, and cf. {Riffle}, {Rivel}.]
1. 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it has superseded the musket.
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2. pl. (Mil.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
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3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material,
used for sharpening scythes.
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{Rifle pit} (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.
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from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Rifle, CO (city, FIPS 64255)
Location: 39.53934 N, 107.77775 W
Population (1990): 4636 (1984 housing units)
Area: 10.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 81650
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Rifle, CO -- U.S. city in Colorado
Population (2000): 6784
Housing Units (2000): 2586
Land area (2000): 4.290603 sq. miles (11.112611 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.039498 sq. miles (0.102299 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.330101 sq. miles (11.214910 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64255
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.536992 N, 107.782709 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81650
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rifle, CO
Rifle
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "rifle":
Amazon, Zouave, air serviceman, automatic, bersagliere, blowgun,
blowpipe, brave, burglarize, burgle, canal, canalize,
cannon fodder, carabineer, carve, chamfer, channel, chasseur,
chisel, comb, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, depredate,
despoil, dike, ditch, dogface, doughfoot, engrave, expert rifleman,
fighting man, firearm, flamethrower, fleece, flute,
food for powder, foot soldier, footslogger, forage, foray,
freeboot, furrow, fusileer, gash, gat, go through, goffer, gouge,
grenadier, groove, grunt, gully, gun, gut, halberdier, handgun,
heater, hoplite, incise, infantryman, knock off, knock over,
legionary, light infantryman, look all over, look everywhere, loot,
man-at-arms, maraud, marksman, military man, musket, musketeer,
navy man, paddlefoot, peashooter, piece, pikeman, pillage, pistol,
pleat, plow, plunder, prey on, rabbet, raid, rake, ransack, ravage,
raven, ravish, reive, relieve, repeater, revolver, rifleman, rob,
rod, rummage, rut, sack, sawed-off shotgun, score, scour, scratch,
search, search high heaven, serviceman, shake, shake down,
sharpshooter, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, slit,
sniper, soldier, spearman, spoil, spoliate, stick up, streak,
striate, sweep, toss, trench, trough, turn inside out,
turn upside down, warrior, warrioress, wrinkle
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