Betekenis van rifle In het Nederlands

• 0 a type of gun with a long barrel (= part shaped like a tube), fired from the shoulder and designed to be accurate at long distances

• 1 to search quickly through something, often in order to steal something:

  • The safe had been rifled and the diamonds were gone.

  • He rifled through the papers on the desk, but couldn't find the photographs.

• 2 a type of gun with a long barrel (= cylindrical part) which is fired from the shoulder

• 3 to search quickly through something, esp. in order to steal something:

  • [ I ] He rifled through the safe, but the diamonds were gone.

• 4 to hit or throw a ball very hard:

  • By the game’s end, he had rifled two balls out of the ball field.