Rifle

rffl, v. [-fled (-fid), -fling.] To seize and bear away by force, carry off; to strip, rob, pillage, plunder. [F. rifler, to ransack, spoil, Ic. hrifa, to catch, seize, hrifs, plunder; L. carpere, to pluck, E. harvest, q. v.] — Ri'fler, n. One who rifles a robber. Rifle, n. A gun whose barrel formed with spiral grooves or channels inside, thus securing for the ball a rotary motion, and Jrreat precision a whetstone for a scythe. — v. To groove, channel; esp., to groove internally with spiral channels to sharpen (a scythe) with a [Dan., to groove, channel, also a groove, fluting, riffel, a rifle (gun), Ic. rif a = E. rive G. riefe, a furrow, riefen, to rifle.] — Rffle-man, n.; pi. -jien. A man armed with a — Riffle, rif n. A sluice having depre ions in the bottom, or other contrivances, for facilitating the settling of particles of gold, in washing auriferous dirt; proce of washing, etc. — Riffler, n. A with a curved end for working in shallow depre ions.