rifling

noun

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

noun

Grooves cut in a rifle barrel.

noun

The act of plundering or pillaging.

noun

plural The waste from sorting bristles.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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.

noun

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