English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of rifle

rifle

/noun/ राइफल; रायफ़ल;
/adjective/राइफल का; राइफ़ल;
/verb/लूटना; खोजकर लूटना;

Synonym rifles; flay;

Next : rift

English Dictionary:

1. Rifle

[n.]

- 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.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.

2. Rifle

[v. i.]

- To raffle.
- To commit robbery.

3. Rifle

[v. t.]

- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To strip; to rob; to pillage.
- To raffle.
- 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.