Usually means: Firearms designed for precision shooting.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word rifles:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. rifles: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rifles: Merriam-Webster
  3. rifles: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rifles: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rifles: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rifle's, Rifles, rifle's, rifles: Wordnik
  7. rifles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. rifles: Wiktionary
  9. rifles: Dictionary.com
  10. rifles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Rifles, The Rifles (band), The Rifles (novel), The Rifles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. rifles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rifles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rifles: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Rifles: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rifles: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rifle)

noun:  (weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
noun:  (military, usually in the plural, dated) A rifleman.
noun:  (weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
noun:  A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
verb:  (intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
verb:  (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
verb:  (transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
verb:  (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
verb:  (transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
verb:  (intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To dispose of in a raffle.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in a raffle.
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