Definition of rifling

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Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

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Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.
Bauble :: Bauble (n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything..
Quiddle :: Quiddle (v. i.) To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle..
Puerile :: Puerile (a.) Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
Toy :: Toy (v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
Twist :: Twist (n.) The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
Trifling :: Trifling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trifl.
Fond :: Fond (superl.) Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. t.) To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning..
Tittle-tattle :: Tittle-tattle (n.) Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle..
Rifling :: Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
Toyish :: Toyish (a.) Sportive; trifling; wanton.
Waspish :: Waspish (a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
Dawdle :: Dawdle (v. i.) To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
Squeamous :: Squeamish (a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties..
Stick-seed :: Stickler (v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony..
Piddling :: Piddling (a.) Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
Snaphance :: Snaphance (n.) A trifling or second-rate thing or person.
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