Rifle /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Rifled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifling

1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

   Till time shall rifle every youthful grace.

2. To strip; to rob; to pillage.

   Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

3. To raffle. [Obs.]

1. To raffle. [Obs.]
2. To commit robbery. [R.]

1. 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
2. A body of soldiers armed with rifles. (Mil.)
3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

1. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
2. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.