rifle

verb transitive

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away. Till time shall rifle ev’ry youthful grace.

To strip; to rob; to pillage; to plunder. You have rifled my master.

noun

[This word belongs to the family of rip, rive, L. rapio, etc. supra. The word means primarily a channel or groove.]

A gun about the usual length and size of a musket, the inside of whose barrel is rifled, that is, grooved, or formed with spiral channels.

verb transitive

To groove; to channel.