a gun with a long BARREL which you hold to your shoulder to fire
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (through) sth to search quickly through sth in order to find or steal sth:
[V] She rifled through her clothes for something suitable to wear. [also VN]
2 [VN] to steal sth from somewhere:
His wallet had been rifled.
3 [VN+adv./prep.] to kick a ball very hard and straight in a game of football
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rifle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rifle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rifle is tagged as noun.
Does rifle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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