rifle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.

   “Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.”

2. isim A rifleman.
3. isim An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
4. isim A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
5. fiil To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing).

   “She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.”

6. fiil To commit robbery or theft.

   “Thither repair at accustomed times their harlots […] not with empty hands, for they be as skilful in picking, rifling, and filching as the upright men.”

7. fiil To search with intent to steal.

   “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”

8. fiil To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

   “Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.”

9. fiil To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

   “Time shall rifle every youthful grace.”

10. fiil To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
11. fiil To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.

    “Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.”

12. fiil To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).

    “The ball rifled off the bat.”

13. fiil To dispose of in a raffle.

    “I've at one throw / Rifled away the diadem of Spain; […]”

14. fiil To engage in a raffle.

    “We'll strike up a drum, set up a tent, call people together, put crowns apiece, let's rifle for her”