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RIFLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
Synonyms:
grooving; rifling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rifling" is a kind of...):
formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb rifle