1. A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
   "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"

1. Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
   "Who rifled through my desk drawers?";
   - go
    
2. Steal goods; take as spoils
   "During the earthquake people rifled the stores that were deserted by their owners";
   - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, ransack, pillage, foray

Derived forms: rifling, rifled, rifles

Type of: firearm, piece, search, small-arm, take

Encyclopedia: Rifle, M16