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- English Word Rifling Definition The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
- English Word Rifling Definition The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
- English Word Rift Definition p. p. of Rive.
- English Word Rift Definition An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
- English Word Rift Definition A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
- English Word Rift Definition To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds.
- English Word Rift Definition To burst open; to split.
- English Word Rift Definition To belch.
- English Word Rifted Definition of Rift
- English Word Rifter Definition A rafter.
- English Word Rifting Definition of Rift
- English Word Rig Definition A ridge.
- English Word Rig Definition To furnish with apparatus or gear; to fit with tackling.
- English Word Rig Definition To dress; to equip; to clothe, especially in an odd or fanciful manner; -- commonly followed by out.
- English Word Rig Definition The peculiar fitting in shape, number, and arrangement of sails and masts, by which different types of vessels are distinguished; as, schooner rig, ship rig, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Rig Definition Dress; esp., odd or fanciful clothing.
- English Word Rig Definition A romp; a wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct.
- English Word Rig Definition A sportive or unbecoming trick; a frolic.
- English Word Rig Definition A blast of wind.
- English Word Rig Definition To play the wanton; to act in an unbecoming manner; to play tricks.
- English Word Rig Definition To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer.
- English Word Rig-Veda Definition See Veda.
- English Word Riga fir Definition A species of pine (Pinus sylvestris), and its wood, which affords a valuable timber; -- called also Scotch pine, and red / yellow deal. It grows in all parts of Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia.
- English Word Rigadoon Definition A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France.
- English Word Rigarion Definition See Irrigation.
- English Word Rigel Definition A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion.
- English Word Rigescent Definition Growing stiff or numb.
- English Word Rigged Definition of Rig
- English Word Rigger Definition One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
- English Word Rigger Definition A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.