Of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel.
1 Milivojevic rifled the penalty past Bernd Leno to pull Palace back level.
2 In about two hours, all the nests of the formicae were rifled .
3 You went into a man's house and rifled through his papers, Wanda.
4 The necessity for rifled cannon arose from the perfection of rifled muskets.
5 The plains were laid waste, and the valleys and woods were rifled .
6 Nor was he in the left-hand room, which had been similarly rifled .
7 Nicholas Van Straten rifled his papers, signalling the end of the meeting.
8 One of the cases containing valuable rings had been opened and rifled .
9 Afterward this hole would be bored and rifled to the proper calibre.
10 As You commanded, it is rifled so that the missile will spin.
11 The locking software sprang open, and he rifled through the backup files.
12 Crouching beside the slack body, he rifled through the trench coat pockets.
13 Ward-Prowse rifled inches over with a long-range half-volley in the 55th minute.
14 On one of the plates was an already rifled assortment of candies.
15 They rifled us of everything we possessed, and began overhauling our baggage.
16 He carried an assortment of straps, rifled from leather trunks and hatboxes.
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