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"Who rifled through my desk drawers?"verbgo through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
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"he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"nouna shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
Definition that contains rifle
- bar a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
- stock the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
- rifle a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
- manual (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle
- cartridge ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun
- browning United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)
- bayonet a knife that can be fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
- bb a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun
- winchester a shoulder rifle
- mauser German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)