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rifled

rifled

7.8
A gun barrel with twisted grooves that make bullets spin and travel straighter
  • adjective
  • /ˈraɪfəl/
  • Specialized
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  • This rifled firearm was designed for long-distance shooting.

Now they also could have had they did have the advantage of what is simply known as the rifled musket.

Examples

  • The main gun here, which actually fires by the way, is rifled on the inside of the barrel.

  • Now they also could have had they did have the advantage of what is simply known as the rifled musket.

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  • The sniper used a rifled barrel to ensure greater accuracy with each shot.

  • The gun enthusiast explained how the rifled design improves bullet stability.

Antonyms

unrifled
  • Specialized
1 9.5

A gun barrel with no spiral cuts inside to make bullets spin

How Rifled

rifled
  • Specialized
7.8
unrifled
  • Specialized
1 9.5

Surface Forms

rifled positive

Morphology

rifled = rifle (transparent) = rifle + ed

This is a regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'rifle' meaning 'to furnish with rifling'; the meaning directly follows from the base verb.

Etymology

Rifled comes from rifle, a word that originally meant 'to make grooves' inside a barrel. Those spiral grooves make a bullet spin and fly straighter, so rifled means 'having grooves that make bullets spin'.