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n. (artifact) | 1. rifle | a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired" |
| ~ bolt | a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech. |
| ~ carbine | light automatic rifle. |
| ~ firearm, small-arm, piece | a portable gun.; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" |
| ~ garand, garand rifle, m-1, m-1 rifle | a semiautomatic rifle. |
| ~ pump action, slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round. |
| ~ rifle butt | the butt end of a rifle. |
| ~ precision rifle, sniper rifle | an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away. |
| ~ winchester | a shoulder rifle. |
v. (possession) | 2. despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip | steal goods; take as spoils.; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" |
| ~ take | take by force.; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" |
| ~ deplume, displume | strip of honors, possessions, or attributes. |
v. (contact) | 3. go, rifle | go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way.; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?" |
| ~ search | subject to a search.; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" |
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