Rifling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The process or operation of cutting spiral grooves in a rifle barrel.
  • n. Grooves cut in a rifle barrel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
  • n. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
  • v. Present participle of rifle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
  • n. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of plundering or pillaging.
  • n. plural The waste from sorting bristles.
  • n. The operation of cutting spiral grooves in the bore of a gun.
  • n. A system or method of spiral grooving in the bore of a rifle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shaping    formation   
    Cross Reference
    ratchet-rifling   
    Verb Stem
    rifle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    stifling    trifling   
     
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