Usually means: Firearm, long barrel, shoulder-fired.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. rifle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rifle: Merriam-Webster
  3. rifle, rifle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rifle, rifle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rifle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rifle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rifle, rifle: Wordnik
  8. rifle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rifle: Wiktionary
  10. rifle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rifle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rifle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rifle, rifle: Dictionary.com
  14. rifle (n.), rifle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rifle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rifle (disambiguation), Rifle (fashion), Rifle, The Rifle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rifle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rifle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rifle: Rhymezone
  20. rifle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rifle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. RIFLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. rifle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. rifle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Rifle: The Word Detective
  26. rifle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. rifle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. rifle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rifle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RIFLE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rifle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rifle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. rifle: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

(Note: See rifled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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