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Rifle Grooves French Cut Spiral Gun Rifler Related

单词 rifle
音标 ['raifl]
解释 n.步枪;v.抢劫
红宝书 【英】 v.抢劫 (to ransack with the intent to steal)
【例】 rifle goods from a shop(抢劫商店的货物 )
字源 rifle (n.)
1775, "portable firearm having a spirally grooved bore," used earlier of the grooves themselves (1751), noun use of rifled (pistol), 1680s, from verb meaning "to cut spiral grooves in" (a gun barrel); see rifle (v.2).
rifle (v.1)
"to plunder," early 14c. (implied in rifling), from Old French rifler "strip, filch, plunder, peel off (skin or bark), fleece," literally "to graze, scratch" (12c.), probably from a Germanic source (compare Old English geriflian "to wrinkle," Old High German riffilon "to tear by rubbing," Old Norse rifa "to tear, break"). Related: Rifled; rifling.
rifle (v.2)
"to cut spiral grooves in" (a gun barrel), 1630s, probably from French rifler, from Old French rifler "to scratch or groove" (see rifle (v.1)). Related: Rifled; rifling.
不择手段背单词 n. 步枪; v 抢劫
【记】外来语: 来复枪, 一种具有来复口径的火器, 被设计从肩膀上开枪.
趣味全助记 【记】译音:来复枪,拿枪抢劫

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