rifle
steal goods; take as spoils
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,774 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,987 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- steal goods; take as spoils also: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, ransack During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way also: go Who rifled through my desk drawers?
noun
- a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired
rifle in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Behind his elbow was swung a Maynard rifle.
The Cavalier · George Washington Cable · Chapter 1
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As he pushed ahead of the geologist the boy flashed his old rifle to his shoulder.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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The heavy butt of a Winchester rifle descended on my head and I fell to the ground.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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He carried neither rifle nor gun in his hand, and his narrow leathern belt was empty of either knife or revolver.
A Phyllis of the Sierras · Bret Harte · Chapter 1
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I prefer the rifle: it makes a clean job of death, and does not prematurely stuff the bird with globules of lead.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1