Index of English words, starting with "ri"

(1) - Riffle (n.) 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.

(1) - Riffraff (n.) Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.

(1) - Rifle (v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3.
(2) - Rifle (v. t.) To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
(3) - Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
(4) - Rifle (n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
(5) - Rifle (n.) 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 As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
(6) - Rifle (v. i.) To commit robbery.
(7) - Rifle (v. i.) To raffle.
(8) - Rifle (v. t.) To raffle.
(9) - Rifle (v. t.) To strip; to rob; to pillage.
(10) - Rifle (v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

(1) - Rifleman (n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
(2) - Rifleman (pl. ) of Rifleman

(1) - Rifler (n.) One who rifles; a robber.