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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
off. |
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To strip; to rob; to pillage. |
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To raffle. |
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To raffle. |
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To commit robbery. |
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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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. |
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A body of soldiers armed with rifles. |
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A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material,
used for sharpening scythes. |
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To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally
with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon. |
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To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3. |
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