Rifle - English meaning

noun

A strip of plastic, metal, or wood with a row of narrow teeth, used for untangling or arranging the hair.

Usage examples:

This involves lifting the hair with a metal comb and burning off the ends with a lighted taper.

verb

Short for honeycomb (sense 1 of the noun).

verb

(of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions.

Usage examples:

The birds forage for aquatic invertebrates, insects, and seeds

noun

Food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.

Usage examples:

It may provide enough forage to delay turning cattle into spring pastures with limited growth that …

verb

To go searching, esp. for food

Usage examples:

[ i ] wild dogs roam the streets, foraging for food.

verb

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.

Usage examples:

In the autumn they hunted deer

noun

An act of hunting wild animals or game.

Usage examples:

A bear-hunt

noun

An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.

Usage examples:

Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

verb

Draw together with a rake or similar implement.

Usage examples:

I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

noun

A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.

Usage examples:

A merry restoration rake

verb

Go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage.

Usage examples:

Burglars ransacked her home

verb

Search thoroughly

verb

To completely search a place in a way that causes mess and damage

Usage examples:

Burglars ransacked the house.

verb

Search unsystematically and untidily through something.

Usage examples:

He rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief

noun

An unsystematic and untidy search.

Usage examples:

Open up the box and have a rummage around

verb

Clean or brighten the surface of (something) by rubbing it hard, typically with an abrasive or detergent.

Usage examples:

She scoured the cooker

noun

The action of scouring or the state of being scoured, especially by swift-flowing water.

Usage examples:

The scour of the tide may cause lateral erosion

verb

Subject (a place, text, etc.) to a thorough search in order to locate something.

Usage examples:

David scoured each newspaper for an article on the murder

verb

Try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.

Usage examples:

I searched among the rocks, but there was nothing

noun

An act of searching for someone or something.

Usage examples:

The police carried out a thorough search of the premises

verb

Look or seek

verb

Put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles.

Usage examples:

Sift the flour into a large bowl

noun

An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important.

Usage examples:

A careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris

noun

Move as if through a sieve