rifle

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rifle1

▶noun

• 1 a gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel to make a bullet spin and thereby increase accuracy over a long distance.

• 2 (rifles) troops armed with rifles.

▶verb

• 1 (usu. as adj. rifled) make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore).

• 2 hit or kick (a ball) hard and straight.

– origin C17: from Fr. rifler ‘graze, scratch’, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rifle2

▶verb search through something hurriedly in order to find or steal something.

■ steal (something).

– origin ME: from OFr. rifler ‘graze, plunder’, of Gmc origin.