rifle

1. A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore (synset 104097375)
   "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
   is a type of: firearm, piece, small-arm - a portable gun
   subtypes:

   • carbine - light automatic rifle
   • garand, garand rifle, m-1, m-1 rifle - a semiautomatic rifle
   • precision rifle, sniper rifle - an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away
   • winchester - a shoulder rifle
   has:

   • bolt - a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
   • pump action, slide action - action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round
   • rifle butt - the butt end of a rifle

1. Steal goods;
   Take as spoils (synset 202349564)
   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
   is a type of: take - take by force
   subtypes: deplume, displume - strip of honors, possessions, or attributes
   same as: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip
2. Go through in search of something;
   Search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way (synset 201321509)
   "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
   is a type of: search - subject to a search
   same as: go

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