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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.