rifled

verb

  1. 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. 2

    To commit robbery or theft.

  3. 3

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

  4. 4

    To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

  5. 5

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

  6. 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. 7

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

  8. 8

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

  9. 9

    To dispose of in a raffle.

  10. 10

    To engage in a raffle.

adjective

  1. 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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