Word Finder - rifle

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

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(usually plural) A rifleman.

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An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.

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

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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)

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

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To commit robbery or theft.

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

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To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

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

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

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

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

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To dispose of in a raffle.

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To engage in a raffle.

She threw the rifle to her shoulder and took aim.

The rifle is for emergencies only.

A rifle cracked, piercing the silence with deadly import.

Wiping her hands on her pants, she gripped her rifle and tried to stay awake.

She raced for the barn, for the first time wishing she had invested in that rifle Josh wanted her to buy.

Her rifle was leaning against the wagon, within easy reach, and her whip hung near by.

She lifted her rifle and frantically cocked it.

He slipped the rifle out of its boot and led the way through the underbrush.

He swung around, rifle in one hand and reins in another, starting toward the bear.

Each carrying two canteens, a rifle and a lantern, they started off into the long shadows of the sand dunes.

He booted it with his toe while holding the rifle at its head.

He jerked a rifle from its scabbard and swung it around with one arm, firing it into the air.

He grimaced as he jammed the rifle down into its boot.

He walked over to examine the crosses and then squatted beside them, rifle across his knees, reading.

He rode into the camp and shoved the rifle into the boot.

Among the plants the wild banana, pepper, orange and mangosteen, rhododendron, epiphytic orchids and the palm; among mammals the bats and rats; among birds the cassowary and rifle birds; and among reptiles the crocodile and tree snakes, characterize this element.

The royal carriage was struck by several revolver and rifle bullets, the horses wounded, but its occupants escaped unhurt.

The garrison (King's German Legion) had run out of rifle ammunition and the French bursting in seized the post.

Choosing a hunting rifle is a big decision.

But some form of sight was almost invariably employed with rifled firearms, even of early date, and when about1780-1800the rifle came into use as a military weapon, sights were introduced with it.

The modern rifle has invariably a back-sight and a fore-sight.

Some foresights have, however, a lateral motion giving within narrow limits the deflection found to be necessary for the variation of each rifle from the average.

The fore-sight of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, used in the United States army until 1906, consisted of a blade with parallel sides.

See for further details Rifle.

For instance, n=o 8 or even less is considered a good average for the modern rifle bullet.

Artillery had fallen, technically, far behind the infantry arm, and in face of long-range rifle fire could not annihilate the hostile line with case-shot fire as in the days of Napoleon.

At Quebec is a Dominion arsenal, rifle and ammunition factories.

After a cautious advance the eagerness of the troops finally overcame the hesitation of the commander in exposing his men, the rifle pits were carried with a rush, and the rebellion crushed at a single stroke.

Wolseley asked for the help of white troops, and the 2nd battalion Rifle Brigade, the 23rd Fusiliers and 42nd Highlanders were despatched.

The training camp of the Belgian army is at Beverloo in the province of Limburg, and at Braschaet not far from Antwerp are ranges for artillery as well as rifle practice.

The Karl Gustaf Stads rifle factory was established in 1814.

Troopers are armed with lance, sword and carbine (for which in 1908 the substitution of a short rifle with bayonet was suggested).

In addition there are eighteen chasseur or rifle battalions (Jager).

The armament of the infantry is Martini-Henry rifle and bayonet; of the cavalry, lance, sword and carbine.

Lyttelton (1st Northumberlands and Grenadier Guards, 2nd Lancashire and Rifle Brigade); Egyptian division, under Major-General Hunter, consisting of four brigades, commanded by Colonels MacDonald, Maxwell, Lewis and, Collinson; mounted troops2Ist Lancers, camel corps, and Egyptian cavalry; artillery, under Colonel Long, 2 British batteries, 5 Egyptian batteries, and 20 machine guns; detachment of Royal Engineers.

One of his last essays dealt with the war of 1866 and the influence of the breech-loading rifle, and he died at Passy on the 24th of March 1869 only a year before the Franco-German War.

The line of defence adjacent to the battery looked downhill for about 300 yds., giving a clear field of fire for the new Enfield rifle the English carried; but a sharp break in the slope beyond that range gave the assailants plenty of "dead ground" on which to form up. For a time, therefore, the battle was a series of attacks, delivered with great fierceness by the main body of Pavlov's corps, the repulse of each being followed by the disappearance of the assailants.

It has also important and growing manufactures of ladies' mantles, boots and shoes, machines, furniture, woollen goods, musical instruments, agricultural machinery and implements, leather, tobacco, chemicals, &c. Brewing, bleaching and dyeing are also carried on on a large scale, and there are extensive railway works and a government rifle factory.

At the same time large sums of money have been expended on strategic works along the north-west frontier, supply and transport has been reorganized, rifle, gun and ammunition factories have been established, and a Staff College at Quetta.

The military rifle adopted for all three branches of the service is the Mauser, 1895 model, of 7 mm.

His talent for experimental research was utilized in investigation into improvements of the army rifle, and he was largely responsible for starting the Hythe School of Musketry.

His interest in the evolution of the rifle early extended itself to other weapons and instruments in the history of man, and he became a collector of articles illustrating the development of human invention.

The rifle factory, founded in 1830 by Josef Werndl, is the largest in Austria, and since 1882 it has added the manufacture of bicycles and electrical plant.

He proceeded to the camp of the king, to whom he presented a rifle, a pair of pistols and a letter in the queen's name.

A rifle range for the Metropolitan Volunteers and others was opened in 1892.

The introduction The of the Minie rifle, with its greased cartridges, was accompanied by no consideration of the religious prejudices of the Bengal sepoys, to whom, whether Hindus or Mahommedans, the fat of cows and pigs was anathema.

The neighbourhood affords pasture for large flocks of sheep. On the land known as the Rypes, in the neighbourhood, there is a military camp, with artillery and rifle ranges; hence the name given to the explosive "lyddite."

The infantry was armed with the Mannlicher magazine rifle (model 1893), the cavalry with the Mannlicher carbine, the horse and field artillery with Krupp quick-firing guns.

Many younger sons from the colony, with nothing to lose, left their homes with horse and rifle to join the republican forces.

The capacious links bordering the sea between the mouths of the two rivers are largely resorted to for open-air recreation; there is here a rifle range where a "wapinschaw," or shooting tournament, is held annually.