In gun-making, to cut spiral grooves in (the bore of a gun-barrel).

To whet, as a scythe, with a rifle.

To groove firearms spirally along the interior of the bore.

To seize and bear away by force; snatch away.

To rob; plunder; pillage: often followed by of.

To raffle; dispose of in a raffle.

To commit robbery or theft.

To raffle; play at dice or some other game of chance wherein the winner secures stakes previously agreed upon.

noun. A bent stick standing on the butt of the handle of a scythe.

noun. An instrument used after the manner of a whetstone for sharpening scythes, and consisting of a piece of wood coated with sharp sand or emery, with a handle at one end.

noun. A firearm or a piece of ordnance having a barrel (or barrels) with a spirally grooved bore.

noun. A soldier armed with a rifle: so named at a time when the rifle was not the usual weapon of the infantry: as, the Royal Irish Rifles—that is, the 83d and 86th regiments of British infantry.

noun. A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.

noun. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.

noun. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

noun. a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.

transitive verb. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

transitive verb. To strip; to rob; to pillage.

transitive verb. To raffle.

intransitive verb. To raffle.

intransitive verb. To commit robbery.

transitive verb. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels.

transitive verb. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

noun. A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.

verb. to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

verb. To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

verb. To strike something with great power.

verb. steal goods; take as spoils

verb. go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way

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

"So that Weaterby 300WSM, sub moa rifle is my favorite round and rifle for Wapiti, though the new Browning is also making a stron case for my field time."

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