rifle

n. firearm with spiral grooves carved inside the gun barrel (causes the bullet to spin and improves accuracy)

v. steal, seize; search frantically, rummage, ransack; empty, take away

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls. The grooves are known as "rifling", and produce raised areas called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the conservation of angular momentum improves accuracy and range, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves. The word "rifle" originally referred to the grooving, and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." Rifles are used in warfare, hunting and shooting sports.
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Noun
1. a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
(hypernym) firearm, piece, small-arm
(hyponym) carbine
(part-meronym) bolt
Verb
1. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
(synonym) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, ransack, pillage, foray
(hypernym) take
(hyponym) deplume, displume
2. go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
(synonym) go
(hypernym) search

n. rifle, firearm with spiral grooves carved inside the gun barrel

n. rifle, firearm with spiral grooves carved inside the gun barrel (causes the bullet to spin and improves accuracy)