[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rifle \ri"fle\, v. t.
   1. to grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally
      with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a
      cannon.
      1913 webster

   2. to whet with a rifle. see rifle, n., 3.
      1913 webster
see also:
rifle 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rifle \ri"fle\, v. t. imp.  p. p. rifled; p. pr.  vb. n.
   rifling. f. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain
   origin. cf. raff.
   1. to seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
      off.
      1913 webster

            till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. to strip; to rob; to pillage. --piers plowman.
      1913 webster

            stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
            if not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to raffle. obs. --j. webster.
      1913 webster
see also:
rifled rifling raff 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rifle \ri"fle\, v. i.
   1. to raffle. obs. --chapman.
      1913 webster

   2. to commit robbery. r. --bp. hall.
      1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rifle \ri"fle\, n. akin to dan. rifle, or riffel, the rifle of
   a gun, a chamfer cf. riffel, riffelb"osse, a rifle gun,
   rifle to rifle a gun, g. riefeln, riefen, to chamfer,
   groove, and e. rive. see rive, and cf. riffle, rivel.
   1. 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      it has superseded the musket.
      1913 webster

   2. pl. mil. a body of soldiers armed with rifles.
      1913 webster

   3. a strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material,
      used for sharpening scythes.
      1913 webster

   rifle pit mil., a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.
      1913 webster
see also:
rive riffle rivel rifle pit 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

rifle
     n : a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he
         lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
     v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "during the earthquake people
          looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
          syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, ransack,
           pillage, foray
     2: go through in search of something; search through someone's
        belongings in an unauthorized way; "who rifled through my
        desk drawers?" syn: go
see also:
plunder despoil loot reave strip ransack 
pillage foray go 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

136 moby thesaurus words for "rifle":
   amazon, zouave, air serviceman, automatic, bersagliere, blowgun,
   blowpipe, brave, burglarize, burgle, canal, canalize,
   cannon fodder, carabineer, carve, chamfer, channel, chasseur,
   chisel, comb, corrugate, crack, crimp, cut, dado, depredate,
   despoil, dike, ditch, dogface, doughfoot, engrave, expert rifleman,
   fighting man, firearm, flamethrower, fleece, flute,
   food for powder, foot soldier, footslogger, forage, foray,
   freeboot, furrow, fusileer, gash, gat, go through, goffer, gouge,
   grenadier, groove, grunt, gully, gun, gut, halberdier, handgun,
   heater, hoplite, incise, infantryman, knock off, knock over,
   legionary, light infantryman, look all over, look everywhere, loot,
   man-at-arms, maraud, marksman, military man, musket, musketeer,
   navy man, paddlefoot, peashooter, piece, pikeman, pillage, pistol,
   pleat, plow, plunder, prey on, rabbet, raid, rake, ransack, ravage,
   raven, ravish, reive, relieve, repeater, revolver, rifleman, rob,
   rod, rummage, rut, sack, sawed-off shotgun, score, scour, scratch,
   search, search high heaven, serviceman, shake, shake down,
   sharpshooter, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter, slit,
   sniper, soldier, spearman, spoil, spoliate, stick up, streak,
   striate, sweep, toss, trench, trough, turn inside out,
   turn upside down, warrior, warrioress, wrinkle

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

rifle, co city, fips 64255
  location: 39.53934 n, 107.77775 w
  population 1990: 4636 1984 housing units
  area: 10.0 sq km land, 0.1 sq km water
  zip codes: 81650

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

rifle, co -- u.s. city in colorado
   population 2000:    6784
   housing units 2000: 2586
   land area 2000:     4.290603 sq. miles 11.112611 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.039498 sq. miles 0.102299 sq. km
   total area 2000:    4.330101 sq. miles 11.214910 sq. km
   fips code:            64255
   located within:       colorado co, fips 08
   location:             39.536992 n, 107.782709 w
   zip codes 1990:     81650
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    rifle, co
    rifle

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