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

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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.

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