[
UK
/ɹˈaɪfəl/
]
[ US /ˈɹaɪfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪfəɫ/ ]
VERB
-
steal goods; take as spoils
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners -
go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
Who rifled through my desk drawers?
NOUN
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a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired
How To Use rifle In A Sentence
- If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time? Cops and Robbers
- Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
- In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
- The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
- He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
- Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
- One of the robbers stood on the victim's head while the second rifled through his pockets, stealing a credit card and £30 cash.
- The 660 is a short light powerful rifle not much harder to carry than a hogleg revolver. Some Odds and Ends
- They rode sturdy Mongolian ponies, wore distinctive fur caps, and carried sabers, pistols, and rifles.