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rifling
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?fl??/
Noun
rifling (plural riflings)
- The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
- The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
- (card games) The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.
Translations
Verb
rifling
- present participle of rifle
References
- rifling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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rifle
English
Etymology
Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English, from Old French rifler (“to scrape off, plunder”), from Old Dutch *riffil?n (compare archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English geriflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *r?fan? (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?f?l/
Noun
rifle (plural rifles)
- (weaponry) A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.
- (military, usually in the plural, dated) A rifleman.
- (weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
rifle (third-person singular simple present rifles, present participle rifling, simple past and past participle rifled)
- (intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle[2])
- (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
- (transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- Template:RQ:Joseph Hall Paraphrases
- thine enemies […] shall ransack and rifle all the things of Edom; and shall search out all thy hidden commodities, and carry them away at once
- Template:RQ:Joseph Hall Paraphrases
- (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- (transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- (transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- (transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- 2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson
- But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net.
- 2011 Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson
- (intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- 2014: Lights of Summer: The Run for Glory by Alexander Rebelle
- The ball rifled off the bat.
- 2014: Lights of Summer: The Run for Glory by Alexander Rebelle
- (obsolete, transitive) To dispose of in a raffle.
- 1605, John Webster, Northward Ho
- If you like not that course but intend to be rid of her , rifle her at a tavern , where you may swallow down some fifty wiseacres ' sons and heirs to old tenements and common gardens , like so many raw yolks with muscadine to bedward Kate.
- 1605, John Webster, Northward Ho
- (obsolete, intransitive) To engage in a raffle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations
References
- rifle at OneLook Dictionary Search
- rifle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Filer, Friel, filer, flier, lifer
Catalan
Etymology
From English rifle.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?ri.fl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?ri.fle/
Noun
rifle m (plural rifles)
- rifle
Further reading
- “rifle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rifle” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “rifle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rifle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ifl/
Etymology 1
From American English rifle (19th century).
Noun
rifle m (plural rifles)
- rifle (carabine)
Related terms
- .22 Long Rifle
Etymology 2
Verb
rifle
- first-person singular present indicative of rifler
- third-person singular present indicative of rifler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of rifler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of rifler
- second-person singular imperative of rifler
Further reading
- “rifle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- filer
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Apparently from Middle Low German or Low German riffel, but compare Danish riffel.
Noun
rifle f or m (definite singular rifla or riflen, indefinite plural rifler, definite plural riflene)
- (firearm) a rifle
Derived terms
- jaktrifle
References
- “rifle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
As above.
Noun
rifle f (definite singular rifla, indefinite plural rifler, definite plural riflene)
- (firearm) a rifle
Derived terms
- jaktrifle
References
- “rifle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- refle
Etymology
From English rifle, from Middle English, from Old French rifler (“to scrape off, plunder”), from Old Low Franconian Old Dutch *rifillon, frequentative of Proto-Germanic *r?fan?.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /??i.fli/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /?hi.fle/
Noun
rifle m (plural rifles)
- rifle
- Synonyms: escopeta, espingarda, fuzil, refle
Further reading
- “rifle” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English rifle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rifle/, [?rif.le]
Noun
rifle m (plural rifles)
- rifle
- Synonym: fusil
Further reading
- “rifle” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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