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A rifle adapted to minie balls.
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n.
One who rifles; a robber.
imp. & p. p.
of Rifle
n.
One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
n.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
n.
Any one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.
v. t.
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
v. t.
To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
v. i.
To commit robbery.
n.
A soldier armed with a rifle.
n.
The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
v. t.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
v. t.
To strip; to rob; to pillage.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rifle
v. t.
To raffle.
n.
A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
n.
The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
pl.
of Rifleman
v. i.
To raffle.
n.
A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
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