Rifle

Noun

 * 1) A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.

Verb

 * 1) to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
 * 2) To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle)
 * She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
 * 1) To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
 * 2) To strike something with great power.

Adjectives for Rifle
leather-cased; handled; speckless; omnipresent; unwieldy; pneumatic; handsome; new; grimy; deathdealing; express; crackling; dreaded.

Verbs for Rifle
arm with—; brandish—; bristle with—s; conceal—; discharge—; examine—; fear—; inspect—; point—; provide with—s; shoulder— ;—crackles; —frightens; —gleams; — mows down; —speaks.

Thesaurus
Amazon, Zouave, air serviceman, automatic, bersagliere, blowgun, blowpipe, brave, burglarize, burgle, canal, canalize, cannon fodder, carabineer, carve, chamfer, channel, chasseur, chisel, comb, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, depredate, despoil, dike, ditch, dogface, doughfoot, engrave, expert rifleman, fighting man, firearm, flamethrower, fleece, flute, food for powder, foot soldier, footslogger, forage, foray, freeboot, furrow, fusileer, gash, gat, go through, goffer, gouge, grenadier, groove, grunt, gully, gun, gut, halberdier, handgun, heater, hoplite, incise, infantryman, knock off, knock over, legionary, light infantryman, look all over, look everywhere, loot, man-at-arms, maraud, marksman, military man, musket, musketeer, navy man, paddlefoot, peashooter, piece, pikeman, pillage, pistol, pleat, plow, plunder, prey on, rabbet, raid, rake, ransack, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, repeater, revolver, rifleman, rob, rod, rummage, rut, sack, sawed-off shotgun, score, scour, scratch, search, search high heaven, serviceman, shake, shake down, sharpshooter, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, slit, sniper, soldier, spearman, spoil, spoliate, stick up, streak, striate, sweep, toss, trench, trough, turn inside out, turn upside down, warrior, warrioress, wrinkle

Etymology
, from rifler: 'to scrape off, plunder', from Old Low Franconian *riffilōn (compare obsolete  rijffelen 'to scrape',  geriflian: 'to wrinkle',  riffeln: 'to scratch, heckle (flax)',  riffilōn: 'to saw, rub apart'), frequentative of  (compare  rifa: 'to tear, break'). More at rive.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Breton: fuzuilh, karabinenn
 * Catalan: fusell
 * Chinese: 步枪 (bùqiāng)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, karabély
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: senapan
 * Irish: raidhfil
 * Irish: raidhfil


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 小銃 (しょうじゅう, shōjū),
 * Korean: 소총 (sochong)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: تفه‌نگ
 * Latvian: šautene
 * Macedonian:
 * Manx: raifyl
 * Maori: raiwhara
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: винтовка (vintóvka), ружьё (ružjó)
 * Scottish Gaelic: gunna-peilear, isneach
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak: puška, karabína
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: bedil
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Derived terms

 * automatic rifle
 * rifled slug
 * rifling

Anagrams

 * filer
 * flier
 * lifer

Noun

 * 1) rifle (carabine)

Related terms

 * .22 Long Rifle

Etymology
From rifle (19th century).

Anagrams

 * filer

Noun

 * 1) rifle

Synonyms

 * fusil
 * escopeta