rifled
Plundered with haste
Rifled describes a gun barrel that has spiral grooves cut into its interior, which cause a bullet to spin and fly more accurately.
The verb rifle means to cut these grooves, or more commonly, to search through something hastily and carelessly, usually looking for something to steal: Someone had rifled through my desk drawers.
If you rifle something, you take it by force or plunder it.
A rifled pass in football is one thrown hard and fast, like a bullet from a rifled barrel.
Hooped cylindrical vessel
- bulletFired metal projectile
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- carbineShort-barreled lightweight firearm
- musketMuzzle-loaded infantry firearm
firearm · weapon · shooting · sniper · marksman · cartridge · magazine · trigger
Having linear indentations
- flutedHaving parallel grooves
- spiralCurve winding around center
- helicalShaped like a coil
- boreTiresome individual or drill
lands · twist · striated · channeled · scored · threading · machined · caliber
barrel
Hooped cylindrical vessel
- bulletFired metal projectile
- ammunitionWeapon projectiles and charges
- carbineShort-barreled lightweight firearm
musket · firearm · weapon · shooting · sniper · marksman · cartridge · magazine · trigger · recoil
grooved
Having linear indentations
bore · lands · twist · striated · channeled · scored · threading · machined · caliber · chamber
ransacked
Searched destructively for valuables
- lootedStolen from, especially violently
- plunderedForcibly took valuables
- pillagedRobbed through violence
burgled · robbed · pilfered · stripped · raided · heist · theft · embezzled · swiped · snatched
rummaged
Searched by displacing items
- ransackedSearched destructively for valuables
- combedArranged hair neatly
- siftedPassed through a strainer
scoured · pillaged · plundered · looted · emptied · tossed · turned over · gone through · stripped · raided
- weapon traitsaccuracy, damage, range, recoil, durability
- examinedobserved, watched, inspected, studied, surveyed
- antique firearmsmusket, matchlock, muzzleloader, harquebus, Brown Bess
- sniper rifleScoped firearm for distant targets
- long riflesExtended-barrel frontier firearms
- air riflePneumatic projectile weapon
- assault riflesSelective-fire infantry firearms
- hunting rifleGun for pursuing game
- automatic rifleSelf-reloading rapid-fire gun