rifle
noun
a shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotatory motion and thus a more precise trajectory.
rifler
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a word derived from
rifle.
Example Sentences
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Had that midnight rifler of safes and vaults been any other on earth than the man he was, the old retainer would have rushed upon him and struck to save the Weymouth property.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
Out of regard, then, for the great Liberal minister, and also because I am no rifler of nests, I seized my old black hat and a camera, and dashed downstairs.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
Doubts were to come later when he was away from her, when he had had leisure to consider that she might regard him in the light of a third potential rifler of her father's treasure-house.
From Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer
A rifler of the roads become a great lord?
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
And who is your prisoner? a rifler of tombs?
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
