RIFLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rifled mean? 

• RIFLED (adjective)
  The adjective RIFLED has 1 sense:

1. of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel

  Familiarity information: RIFLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIFLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel

Antonym:

unrifled (of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel)

 Context examples 

The CACHE had been found and rifled; the seven hundred thousand pounds were gone!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The question for us now to solve is the sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am convinced that these marks were left by the man who rifled the papers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed—the word is passed to the Professor, the matter is organized and carried out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, when he had left, you rifled the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man arrested.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton—it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east angle of the island, and there it had lain stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The police theory is that a most sensational crime has been committed, that the victim was clubbed to death in his own bedroom, his papers rifled, and his dead body dragged across to the wood-stack, which was then ignited so as to hide all traces of the crime.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)