| Rifling 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rifle. 2. (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel. 3. (n.) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Thesaurus Entries armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, bank robbery, brigandage, brigandism, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, extortion, foraging, foray, freebooting, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, looting, marauding, mugging, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, purse snatching, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, robbery, robbing, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, stickup, stickup job |