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What does rifle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rifle? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
  2. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
Verb
  1. To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
  2. To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle)
  3. To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
  4. To strike something with great power.
  5. to begin movement at great speed
  6. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
  7. (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
  8. To raffle.
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