rifling

The process or operation of cutting spiral grooves in a rifle barrel.

Grooves cut in a rifle barrel.

The act of plundering or pillaging.

plural The waste from sorting bristles.

The operation of cutting spiral grooves in the bore of a gun.

A system or method of spiral grooving in the bore of a rifle.

The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.