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Rifle

noun

A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.

verb

(past & past part. rifled; pres. part. rifling)

Steal goods; take as spoils. Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip.

Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way. Synonym: go.

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"Rifle" Quotes from Famous Books

... under cover of a spur, amid snow-drifts and tumbled trees, enabled the bear-hunters to tie up their ponies and push on afoot. If a man desire to lose confidence in his physical powers, let him try a good run with a Winchester rifle in hand nine thousand feet above tidewater. Rounding the edge of a hill and crossing a snow-drift, they came in view of Bruin sixty yards away. He came straight toward them against the wind, when there appeared on the left Bruin No. 2, to which the doctor directed his ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... and the simple ceremony proved more solemn than any one expected. They could make no use of their every-day jokes and friendly greetings. Their old blue coats and tarnished army caps looked faded and antiquated enough. One of the men had nothing left but his rusty canteen and rifle; but these he carried like sacred emblems. He had worn out all his army clothes long ago, because he was too poor when he was discharged to ...

— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... on our doorstone with a rifle, and pick off the visitors as they come up the street!" cried Just, as the ...

— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond

... setting the right way to work to do it. First make it unprofitable and very dangerous, and then show the natives the advantages of civilisation and commerce." When the boat reached the mouth of the river, the frigate was nowhere to be seen. "Then, Paddy," exclaimed Jack, clutching his rifle, "let us have a cruise on our own hook. You remember the prize you took among the Ionian Islands, old fellow?" How merrily they laughed at the recollection of that early freak of theirs. Paddy, of course, was delighted to join in any scheme ...

— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston

... it is impossible for us to fly. The fearful reptiles advanced upon us; they turned and twisted about the raft with awful rapidity. They formed around our devoted vessel a series of concentric circles. I took up my rifle in desperation. But what effect can a rifle ball produce upon the armor scales with which the bodies of these horrid ...

— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne

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