different between despoiler vs rifler

English

Etymology

despoil +? -er

Noun

despoiler (plural despoilers)

1. One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
   • 1881, Rosa Campbell Praed, Policy and Passion, Chapter 30,^[1]

     A wild and unreasoning craving for vengeance took possession of Ferris’s soul. Passing by the real despoiler of Angela’s peace, it clamoured like an evil spirit against the man from whom he had received benefits, which his distorted imagination construed into insults.

   • 1985, Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History, New York: Norton, 1987, Chapter 1,^[2]

     Other despoilers of our natural heritage killed bison with even greater abandon, removed the tongue only (considered a great delicacy in some quarters), and left the rest of the carcass to rot.

References

• despoiler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• leprosied, spoilered

English

Etymology

rifle +? -er

Noun

rifler (plural riflers)

1. One who rifles; a robber.

Anagrams

• ferril

Danish

Noun

rifler c

1. indefinite plural of riffel

French

Etymology

From Old French rifler (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?fil?n via either Frankish *r?ffil?n or Old High German riffilon (“to tear by rubbing”), akin to rip, ripple. Compare Old English geriflian (“to wrinkle”), Old Norse rifa (“to tear, break”).

Verb

rifler

1. (archaic) to flay
2. (archaic) to rub

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rifler la mort

Further reading

• “rifler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rifler m or f

1. indefinite plural of rifle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rifler f

1. indefinite plural of rifle

Old French

Alternative forms

• riffler, ryffler, rofler, rufler, rufeler

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *r?ffil?n (“to scrape, scratch, tear”), from Proto-Germanic *r?fil?n? (“to scrape, scratch, graze”). Alternatively borrowed from Old High German riffil?n of the same origin.

Verb

rifler

1. to scrape off, tear off, flay
2. to plane, shave
3. to plunder, despoil

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Middle French: rifler, riffler
  • French: rifler (archaic)
  • ? Middle French: rafler (“take violently, abruptly remove”) (chiefly game term)
    • French: rafler (informal)
  • Picard: rafleu (Athois)
  • ? Middle French: arafler, arifler (“to scratch, scrape”)
• ? Middle English: riflen, ryflen
  • English: rifle
• ? Old French: *rifle, rufle (“plundering, robbing”)
  • ? Old French: rafle, raffle (“dice game”) [from late 14th c.]
    • Middle French: rafle
      • French: rafle
        • ? German: Raffel
        • ? Swedish: raffel
      • ? Dutch: rafel (archaic)
    • Picard: râfle (Athois)
    • ? Middle English: rafle, raful
      • English: raffle
    • ? New Latin: raffla