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rifle noun

  /ˈɹaɪfəl/
kivääri

rifle verb

  /ˈɹaɪfəl/
  • (transitive) To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
 ampua, lähteä kuin ammuttuna
  • (transitive) To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
 penkoa
  • (transitive) To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
 rihlata
  • (transitive) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
 riistää
  • (intransitive) To commit robbery or theft.
 rosvota, ryöstää
  • (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
 ryöstää

rifled adjective

  • (firearms) Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
 rihlattu

rifling noun

  /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/
  • (military) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. 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.
 rihlat, rihlaus
  • (military) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
 rihlaus
assault rifle
rynnäkkökivääri
sniper rifle
tarkkuuskivääri
recoilless rifle
sinko
air rifle
ilmakivääri
plasma rifle
plasmakivääri
rifle scope
kiikaritähtäin
automatic rifle
pikakivääri
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