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Crossword-Solution: RIFLE 5 letters, 242 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Rifle v. t. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry
off.
Rifle v. t. To strip; to rob; to pillage.
Rifle v. t. To raffle.
Rifle v. i. To raffle.
Rifle v. i. To commit robbery.
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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
Rifle n. A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
Rifle n. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material,
used for sharpening scythes.
Rifle v. t. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally
with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
Rifle v. t. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.

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Word Anagrams
RIFLE anagram FILER, FLIER, FRIEL, FRILE, LIFER

We have 242 clues for the answer “RIFLE”

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AK-47, e.g. 1 answer
Annie Oakley's accessory 1 answer
Annie Oakley's firearm 1 answer
Annie Oakley's prop 1 answer
Annie Oakley's tool 1 answer
Annie Oakley's weapon 1 answer
Arm with a good range 1 answer
Backwoods weapon 1 answer
Biathlete's burden 1 answer
Biathlete's item 1 answer
Biathlete's prop 1 answer
Biathlete's weapon 1 answer
Biathlon firearm 1 answer
Biathlon gun 1 answer
Biathlon prerequisite 1 answer
Biathlon requirement 1 answer
Biathlon weapon 1 answer
Blunderbuss descendant 1 answer
Bolt-action firearm 1 answer
Boone's weapon 1 answer
Browning, for one 1 answer
CHASSEPOT 1 answer
Certain shooting iron 1 answer
Chassepot, e.g. 1 answer
Chuck Connors trademark 1 answer
Chuck Connors' Winchester 1 answer
Crockett's weapon 1 answer
Davy Crockett's weapon. 1 answer
Doughboy's weapon 1 answer
Drill item 1 answer
Elmer Fudd prop 1 answer
Elmer Fudd's weapon 1 answer
Enfield 1 answer
Enfield or Browning. 1 answer
Engage in ransacking 1 answer
Feature of many a Daniel Boone depiction 1 answer
Female engulfed by anger in Winchester? 1 answer
Flintlock, e.g. 1 answer
Fudd's weapon 1 answer
G. I. item. 1 answer
Garand or M-1 1 answer
Garand, e.g. 1 answer
Garand, for one 1 answer
Go through energetically, as drawers 1 answer
Go through hastily, as drawers 1 answer
Great throwing arm 1 answer
Groovy gun? 1 answer
Hunter's arm 1 answer
Hunter's firearm 1 answer
Hunter's gear 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with RIFLE (5)

She bought a new Brussels carpet for the parlor, and a rifle for Gunner and Axel, and an imitation tiger-skin coat and cap for Thor.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The great banths which we had liberated in the garden had evidently been awed at first by the sound of the battle, the yelling of the warriors and the loud report of rifle and bomb.
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The instant that its entire length was within the black aperture it sprang forward with the speed of a rifle ball.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
During the year that followed, Clayton was several times attacked by the great apes which now seemed to continually infest the vicinity of the cabin; but as he never again ventured outside without both rifle and revolvers he had little fear of the huge beasts.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
But at the same instant one of the blacks threw down his load, and, snatching his rifle from his back, fired point-blank at the group of Arabs.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with RIFLE (3)

In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every …
Thomas L. Friedman
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James D. Nicoll
He held up the AK-47, the muscles in his arm bunching against the weight. “This is an assault rifle.” Then held up the handgun. “This is a semi-automatic pistol.” Then he gave a little thrust of his hips and looked down at his penis. “That is my gun. As you’ve discovered, it’s pumpaction like a shotgun , but it doesn’t fire bullets.
Pamela Clare Breaking Point
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 399 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).