Crossword-Solution: RIFLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rifling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Rifle |
| Rifling | n. | The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. |
| Rifling | n. | The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “RIFLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Burglar job. | 1 answer |
| GROOVE in gun barrel | 1 answer |
| Searching through someone's stuff | 1 answer |
| Spiral groove in gun barrel | 1 answer |
| Spiral grooves in bore of a gun. | 1 answer |
| System of gun-barrel grooves | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with RIFLING (5)
Was it not he of St Ives whom they tied to an oak-tree, and compelled to sing a mass while they were rifling his mails and his wallets?—No, by our Lady—that jest was played by Gualtier of Middleton, one of our own companions-at-arms.
The revolver taken from Peace that night was produced, and it was shown that the rifling of the bullet extracted from Dyson's head was the same as that of the bullet fired from the revolver carried by Peace at the time of his capture.
The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, proceeded to captivate him by rifling his pockets, pulling his beard, and investigating his watch, with juvenile audacity.
Wild creepers flaunt their red and gold from the treetops, and the bumblebees and humming-birds make common cause in rifling the honey-laden trumpets.
The man fell heavily to the ground, and, while the Count was employed in rifling his portfolio of bonds in the Mississippi and Indian schemes to the amount of one hundred thousand crowns, Mille, the Piedmontese, stabbed the unfortunate broker again and again, to make sure of his death.
Quotes with RIFLING (3)
Hey! When he dug into it, rifling through her things, she snapped, "Go Yoda someone else's supplies, asshole.
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away. The voyeurism and busybodyism that impel writers and readers of biography alike are obscured by an apparatus of sc…
You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1945–2006).