A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
A firearm with a rifled bore that imparts a twist to the bullet on firing, giving it greater range and accuracy than a musket. Introduced at the end of the 18th century to selected regiments, its use became general in the mid 19th century .
A firearm having spiral grooves in the bore and designed to be fired from the shoulder.
A firearm developed from the 15thC with a barrel which has spiral grooves cut into the bore - the rifling. This causes the bullet to spin, resulting in greater stability of flight and accuracy.
a shoulder weapon whose barrel is grooved, includes an attach- ment for a bayonet.
1. (n.) A shoulder-fired long gun which has a rifled ( See Rifling.) barrel. C.f., shotgun or musket. 2. (v.) To form the rifling in a gun barrel.
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
a bit heavy so recoil is very manageable with all bullet weights
a deadly weapon, but it's a lot more deadly in the hands of a lunatic than in the hands of a police officer
a firearm A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant
a firearm with spiral, parallel grooves cut into the bore to impart spin in the projectile giving flight stability to the projectile, and thus greatly improves the accuracy with which the projectile follows the aim
a gun with spiraled grooves inside the barrel that spin the bullet as it leaves the barrel, giving it gyroscopic precession, which is more accurate
a long gun designed to be fired with two hands
a more accurate firearm than a musket, or fowling piece loaded with a single ball, and would be a better choice
a much nicer weapon, it does its work without a quarter of the fuss
an excellent self-defense weapon in any environment except indoors
a shoulder-fired arm utilizing a relatively high-velocity round
a type of projectile weapon
A gun with a series of spiral groves cut on the inside of a long gun-barrel to make the shot go straighter.
A weapon designed to fire a bullet through a rifled barrel. A rifled barrel contains spiral grooves which impart spin to the bullet as it is fired to improve ballistic stability.
A firearm designed to be fired while braced against the shoulder and which uses a spiral groove cut along the inside of the barrel to spin the bullet. Spinning improves the projectile's accuracy and range -- the same basic principle which makes a football go straight when thrown correctly.
A shoulder firearm with spiral grooves cut in the inner surface of the gun barrel to give the bullet a rotating motion and render its flight more accurate.
A shoulder gun with rifled bore.
A long barrelled gun, the bore of which carries longitudinal spiral grooves to impart spin to the bullet in flight. A rifle is intended to be fired from the shoulder.
A rifle is a firearm with a stock and a barrel that has a spiral groove or grooves ("rifling") cut into its interior. The rifling produces "lands," areas that make contact with the projectile (usually a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the conservation of angular momentum improves accuracy and range, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves.