Rifle



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解释

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• n.步枪; v.抢劫
• ［英］ v.抢劫 ( to ransack with the intent to steal)
• ［例］ rifle goods from a shop ( 抢劫商店的货物)

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (rifled; rifling)

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French rifler to scrape off, plunder, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German riffilōn to saw, obsolete Dutch rijffelen to scrape
• Date: 14th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to ransack especially with the intent to steal
  • 2. to steal and carry away
• intransitive verb
  • to engage in ransacking and stealing
• ? rifler noun

II. transitive verb (rifled; rifling)

• Etymology: perhaps from French rifler to scratch, file, from Middle French, to scrape, plunder
• Date: 1635
• to cut spiral grooves into the bore of <rifled arms><rifled pipe>

III. noun

• Date: 1770
• 1.
  • a. a shoulder weapon with a rifled bore
  • b. a rifled artillery piece
• 2. plural soldiers armed with rifles

IV. transitive verb (rifled; rifling)

• Etymology: ［sup］3［/sup］rifle
• Date: 1937
• to propel (as a ball) with great force or speed

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