rifled
Adjective
(not comparable)
- (firearms) Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of rifle
rifled
Variant of rifle
transitive verb
rifled, rifling- to cut spiral grooves on the inside of (a gun barrel, etc.)
- ☆
Origin of rifle
< riflethe to hurl or throw with great speed
Origin of rifle
French rifler, to scrape, scratch ; from Old French ; from Middle High German riffeln, to scratch, heckle (flax) ; from Old High German riffilon, akin to ripplenoun
- ☆ a gun, fired from the shoulder, with spiral grooves cut into the inner surface of the barrel
- a rifled artillery piece
- troops armed with rifles
Origin of rifle
short for rifled gun