Overview of noun rifling

The noun rifling has 1 sense

• grooving, rifling -- (the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm)

Overview of verb rifle

The verb rifle has 2 senses

• plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray -- (steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners")


• rifle, go -- (go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?")