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rifling
(encz) | rifling,žlábkování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Rifling
(gcide) | Rifle \Ri"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rifling.] [F. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain
origin. CF. Raff.]
1. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
off.
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Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. --Pope.
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2. To strip; to rob; to pillage. --Piers Plowman.
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Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:
If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you. --Shak.
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3. To raffle. [Obs.] --J. Webster.
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Rifling
(gcide) | Rifling \Ri"fling\, n.
(a) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled
cannon or gun barrel.
(b) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
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Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the
groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate
loading with shot having projections which enter by the
deeper part of the grooves.
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rifling
(wn) | rifling
n 1: the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel
of a firearm [syn: grooving, rifling] |
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rifling
(encz) | rifling,žlábkování n: Zdeněk Brož |
trifling
(encz) | trifling,bezvýznamný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Shunt rifling
(gcide) | Rifling \Ri"fling\, n.
(a) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled
cannon or gun barrel.
(b) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
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Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the
groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate
loading with shot having projections which enter by the
deeper part of the grooves.
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Trifling
(gcide) | Trifling \Tri"fling\, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. --
Tri"fling*ness, n.
[1913 Webster] TrifloralTrifle \Tri"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trifled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trifling.] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.]
To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or
dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or
trivial amusements.
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They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which
toucheth us. --Hooker.
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To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without
respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's
feelings, or with sacred things.
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Triflingly
(gcide) | Trifling \Tri"fling\, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. --
Tri"fling*ness, n.
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Triflingness
(gcide) | Trifling \Tri"fling\, a.
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a
trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. --
Tri"fling*ness, n.
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Untrifling
(gcide) | Untrifling \Untrifling\
See trifling. |
rifling
(wn) | rifling
n 1: the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel
of a firearm [syn: grooving, rifling] |
trifling
(wn) | trifling
adj 1: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too
paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts";
"a trifling matter" [syn: negligible, paltry,
trifling]
n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of
working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling] |
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