rifle

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for rifle

rifle 🔊 /ɹajˈfʌl/

rifle : රයිපලය

rifle : අත් තුවක්කු විශේෂයක්

rifle definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
  2. To strip; to rob; to pillage.
  3. To raffle.
  4. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
  5. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To raffle.
  2. To commit robbery.

Noun.

  1. A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
  2. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
  3. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.