Rifling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RIFLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance
• hit or kick (a ball) hard and straight
• search through something in a hurried way in order to find or steal something
• steal
NOUN:
• the system of grooves in a gun barrel
• a gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance
• troops armed with rifles
• The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
• The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
• the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
• cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of a firearm's barrel
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to search through and rob
• cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of a firearm\'s barrel

Words related to RIFLING

rifle8 rifled10 rifles9 riflings12

Words that contain RIFLING

riflings12 trifling12 triflings13 triflingly17 triflingness16 triflingnesses18

How to use RIFLING in a sentence

• Seizing him by the throat, the villain effectually prevented his calling for help, and at once commenced rifling his pockets, when the cooper arrived on the scene.
• The rifling makes one complete turn in each 10 inches of the barrel.
• After scrubbing out with the soda solution, plug the bore from the breech with a cork at the front end of the chamber or where the rifling begins.
• An injury to the rifling at the muzzle causes the piece to shoot very irregularly.
• The ordinary bullet consists of a lead core with a casing of nickel, since the soft lead would soon choke rifling.
• He who once shrank to give little rings of his own will, now unwillingly squandered his masses of wealth, rifling his hoarded heap.
• The new gun on Gun Hill is perhaps too vigorous for our old friend, and the rifling on his shells is too clean.
• The others followed each his inclination, rifling the dead, capturing prisoners, seizing arms and horses.
• After rifling the room of everything portable, including some of Mrs.
• Most of the Indians had for some time been engaged in rifling the warehouse, which adjoined the store behind.
• The rifling consists of narrow grooves and bands, 45 of each.
• I have caught this man under suspicious circumstances in the very act of rifling my effects.
• At that moment Lola, in search of blackberries, and herself concealed by the bush she was rifling, peeped through the brambles, and remained a petrified and curious observer.
• These have reference not only to the calibre and mode of rifling, but to the design of the gun itself.
• Still she could not rid herself of the feeling that alien hands had been rifling her belongings.
• The four spiral channels within the bore of the rifle sometimes called rifling.
• Colonel Ripley issued an order on Tuesday for rifling cannon.
• Whitworth employs a solid iron or steel projectile dressed by machinery beforehand to fit the rifling.
• The rifling of some guns is important, not so much to secure range or accuracy, as to fire elongated shells through armor.
• It was besides supplied with extensive and valuable machinery for repairing guns, rifling barrels, mounting artillery, and preparing shot and shell.
• The musket is now completed, with the exception of the rifling, and some slight polishing to be done by hand at the muzzle and breech.

Similar words containing RIFL without suffix ing

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