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Rifling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Plundering; seizing and carrying away by violence; grooving.

Rifling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

2. The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.

Rifling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913