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 as a military firearm it has superseded the musket.-a body of soldiers armed with rifles.-a strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.-to grove; to channel;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