rifled
verb
- 1
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.”
- 2
To commit robbery or theft.
- 3
To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- 4
To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- 5
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- 6
To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
- 7
To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- 8
To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- 9
To dispose of in a raffle.
- 10
To engage in a raffle.
adjective
- 1
Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
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