"rifling" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-rifling.wav [US] Forms: riflings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪflɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} rifling (plural riflings)
  1. (military) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. Categories (topical): Military
    Sense id: en-rifling-en-noun-tTTcCp~J Topics: government, military, politics, war
  2. (military) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, 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. Categories (topical): Military Translations (system of grooves): rihlat [plural] (Finnish), rihlaus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-rifling-en-noun-bz08evYe Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'system of grooves': 16 79 5
  3. (card games) The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards. Categories (topical): Card games
    Sense id: en-rifling-en-noun-SNTstwcW Topics: card-games, games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (act or process): rihlaus (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'act or process': 53 0 47

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-rifling.wav [US]
Rhymes: -aɪflɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} rifling
  1. present participle and gerund of rifle Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: rifle
    Sense id: en-rifling-en-verb-~HzJP31O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 16 34 48

Inflected forms

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