RI'FLE, v.t. [This is one of the family of rip, rive, reap, raffle, L. rapio. Eng. rub, &c.] 1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away.Till time shall rifle ev'ry youthful grace.2. To strip; to rob; to pillage; to plunder. You have rifled my master.RI'FLE, n. [This word belongs to the family of rip, rive, L. rapio, &c. supra. The word means primarily a channel or groove.] A gun about the usual length and size of a musket, the inside of whose barrel is rifled, that is, grooved, or formed with spiral channels.RI'FLE, v.t. To groove; to channel.
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