Rifling

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  • noun. The process or operation of cutting spiral grooves in a rifle barrel.
  • noun. Grooves cut in a rifle barrel.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The operation of cutting spiral grooves in the bore of a gun.
  • noun. A system or method of spiral grooving in the bore of a rifle.
  • noun. The act of plundering or pillaging.
  • noun. plural The waste from sorting bristles.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
  • noun. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
  • noun. rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
  • noun. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
  • verb. Present participle of rifle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
    • Word Usage
    "This stupid practice of Reloaders believing to seat the bullet until it barely touches the rifling is the best way to blow your head off!"
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    ratchet-rifling  
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    stifling  trifling  
    verb-stem
    rifle  
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