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What does the word rifle mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To groove spirally, as the bore of a gun; rotate when discharged, as a bullet.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To despoil; plunder; snatch away.

Part of speech: noun

A firearm having spiral grooves within the bore for imparting rotation to the projectile.

Part of speech: noun

Rifleman.

Usage examples for rifle

Give him a rifle. – Queen Sheba's Ring by H. Rider Haggard
At the last, when she was ready, she picked up her rifle and turned to us. – More Tish by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Pierrot followed, and in going he caught up his rifle. – Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood