KJV Dictionary Definition: rifle

rifle

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.

rifled

RI'FLED, pp. Seized and carried away by violence; pillaged; channeled.

rifling

RI'FLING, ppr. Plundering; seizing and carrying away by violence; grooving.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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