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noun

Rifling n.

The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rifling" Quotes from Famous Books

... saw that the German's rifle had been hurled quite ten yards. The barrel was partly wrenched from the stock, and for a distance of about a foot from the muzzle the steel had been split, revealing the glittering rifling. ...

— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman

... mood, coincident with the rifling of Riggs's person, had not worn over to this evening camp. What talk the outlaws indulged in was necessary and conducted in low tones. The place ...

— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey

... of the 37th pioneer gas battalion, captured on August 26th, had said that they were to practise with a new type of projector with a range of 3 kilometres, the increased range being obtained by rifling the bore of the projector. He stated that the intention was to use the longer range weapons in conjunction with the old short range projector, using the new type to deal with the reserve positions. The capture of the dumps referred to above ...

— by Victor LeFebure • J. Walker McSpadden

... gyroscopic effect, being reversed in direction by a change from a right to a left-handed twist of rifling, and being increased by an increase ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... adventure down the slip, ignominious though it was, had put fire into my heart. I entered eagerly into the captain's scheme of hauling and rifling the Millport lobster-traps, in the convenient fog which, as if sent by heaven, hid us for a little space from the land. The blood of ancestral pirates and robbers bounded hilariously once more in my long-easeful, ...

— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene

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