rifle

A shouldered firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy.

(usually plural) A rifleman.

An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)

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

To commit robbery or theft.

To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

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

To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.

To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.

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

To dispose of in a raffle.

To engage in a raffle.