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Substantiivi

1. (weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
2. (military, usually in the plural, dated) A rifleman.
3. (weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
4. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Verbi

1. (intransitive) 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)
2. (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
3. (transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
4. (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
5. (transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
6. (transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
7. (transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
8. (intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
9. (transitive, obsolete) To dispose of in a raffle.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in a raffle.