Rifle

1. To commit robbery.
2. To raffle.
3. To raffle.
4. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
5. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
6. 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
7. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
8. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
9. To strip; to rob; to pillage.
10. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.