Vocabulary : Rife to Rifling
Rife : Prevailing; prevalent; abounding. ;; Having power; active; nimble.Riffle : A ripple in a stream or current of water; also, a place where the water ripples, as on a shallow rapid. ;; A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
Riffler : A curved file used in carving wool and marble.
Riffraff : Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
Rifle : To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. ;; To strip; to rob; to pillage. ;; To raffle. ;; To raffle. ;; To commit robbery. ;; A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. ;; A body of soldiers armed with rifles. ;; A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. ;; To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon. ;; To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
