rifle

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rifle englannista suomeksi

A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
(RQ:Bindloss Dust of Conflict)
(quote-book)
A rifleman.
An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
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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To commit robbery or theft.
(quote-book) not with empty hands, for they be as skilful in picking, rifling, and filching as the upright men.| author=Thomas Harman| title=A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors| year=1566
To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
{{quote-text|en|year=1633|author=Joseph Hall|title=A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture
To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island)
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
(RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)
To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
(quote-journal)
2011 ''Fighting for Gold: The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold'' by Lorna Schultz Schultz Nicholson

But a Norwegian player rifled off a point shot that sailed into the back of the net.

To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
{{quote-text|en|year=2014|title=Lights of Summer: The Run for Glory|author=Alexander Rebelle
To dispose of in a raffle.
(RQ:Dekker Lust's Dominion)
{{quote-text|en|year=1605|author=John Webster|title=Northward Ho
To engage in a raffle.
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