Definition of rifle

• v. t. - To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
• v. t. - To strip; to rob; to pillage.
• v. t. - To raffle.
• v. i. - To raffle.
• v. i. - To commit robbery.
• 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
• n. - A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
• n. - A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
• v. t. - To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
• v. t. - To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.