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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 raffle. 5. To commit robbery. 6. 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. 7. A body of soldiers armed with rifles. 8. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. 9. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon. 10. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3. 11. a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired" 
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