Definitions for rifle

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rifle ri·fle

Spelling: [rahy-fuh l]

IPA: /ˈraɪ fəl/

Rifle is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in rifle (efilr).

Definitions for rifle

noun

1. a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
2. one of the grooves.
3. a cannon with such grooves.
4. (often initial capital letter) rifles, any of certain military units or bodies equipped with rifles.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut spiral grooves within (a gun barrel, pipe, etc.).
2. to propel (a ball) at high speed, as by throwing or hitting with a bat.
3. to ransack and rob (a place, receptacle, etc.).
4. to search and rob (a person).
5. to plunder or strip bare.
6. to steal or take away.

Origin of rifle

1745-55; Low German rīfeln to groove, derivative of rīve, riefe groove, flute, furrow; akin to Old English rifelede wrinkled

Examples for rifle

My rifle was in my shoulder in that familiar and powerful position.

He could follow his target as though a magnetic power attracted his rifle.

At one point McShane stopped suddenly, and pointed to what looked like a rifle protruding from a window.

Ten emus came to water; shot twice with rifle at them, but missed.

Andrew sat in the dark, hurriedly going over his rifle and his revolver.

Looking back, Andy saw a rifle pitch to the shoulder of the deputy.

I crossed the room with my rifle up, stood on top of the bed, and from my perch looked down at bin Laden.

Acts of violence include death by hanging, rifle butt, boot heel, tank tracks and fireball.

Then, hardly looking at his target, he snapped his rifle back to his shoulder and fired.

In the Korean War, they took six weeks to train them how to use a rifle and then sent them off to war.