(weaponry) A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.

(weaponry) An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

(intransitive) To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle[2])

(intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.

(transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

(transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

(transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

(transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.

(transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.

(intransitive) To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).