1. Spiral grooves cut into the bore of a gun barrel to make a bullet spin and increase accuracy
   "rifling improves the accuracy and range of rifles"

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: riflings

Type of: formation, search, shaping, take

Encyclopedia: Rifling