(firearms) Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

simple past tense and past participle of rifle

(weaponry) A shoulder-fired firearm with a long, rifled barrel to improve range and accuracy. / (military, usually in the plural, dated) A rifleman. / (weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.

(intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle) / (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.

plural of rifle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rifle

(military) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

present participle of rifle

plural of rifling

A shotgun cartridge having only a single projectile, with oblique grooves on the projectile causing it to spin and thus increasing accuracy.