Ri″fle (?), v. t. 1. To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
2. To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.