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Examples of rifling
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When the student awoke, the man was straddling him, rifling through his pockets.
From the post-gazette.com
There's little use in rifling through the atrocities associated with this series.
From the post-gazette.com
Bad is catching him rifling through your purse or making out with the waitress.
From the cnn.com
Soon after loading VNC onto my computer, I was rifling through Joel's hard drive.
From the time.com
It's pretty bad form to tell someone you've been rifling through their history.
From the guardian.co.uk
The rifling imparts a spin on the bullet, which keeps it from tumbling in flight.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He went to investigate and saw two other youths inside rifling through cigarettes.
From the guardian.co.uk
There were two men at the foot of the bed, rifling through my dressing table.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
The musket was not accurate because of its smooth bore barrel which had no rifling.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Grooving: the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
- Rifling is the process of making helical grooves in the barrel of a gun or firearm, which imparts a spin to a projectile around its long axis. This spin serves to gyroscopically stabilize the projectile, improving its aerodynamic stability and accuracy.
- (Rifled) A gun barrel is rifled when it has grooves (called rifling) cut into the inside of the barrel for longer range and more accurate firing.
- (Rifled) The cutting of spiral grooves into the interior surface of a gun in order to cause the bullet to spin. This greatly improves accuracy and is common on modern handguns and rifles, and even on shotguns specially designed to shoot slugs.
- (Rifled) Traditionally, artillery projectiles have been spin-stabilised, meaning that they spin in flight so that gyroscopic forces prevent them from tumbling. ...
- (rifled) stolen; taken by force.
- Spiral grooves in a gun's bore that spin the projectile in flight and impart accuracy. Rifling is present in all true rifles, in most handguns and in some shotgun barrels designed for increasing the accuracy potential of slugs( a slug is a single projectile rather than the more common "shot".)
- The lands and grooves cut into the barrels of a gun.
- The grooves cut into a rifle or pistol barrel which cause the bullet to spin.
