Rifle vs Jaeger - What's the difference?

rifle | jaeger |

As a verb rifle

is .

As a noun jaeger is

the proprietary name of a range of woollen clothing; an item of woollen clothing.

rifle

English

(wikipedia rifle)

Noun

(en noun)

A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles , and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Derived terms

* automatic rifle * rifled slug * rifling

Verb

(rifl)

to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle^{[http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html]})

She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.

To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

To strike something with great power.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.}}

To commit robbery.

(Bishop Hall)

To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

* Shakespeare

Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

* Alexander Pope

Time shall rifle every youthful grace.

To raffle.

Anagrams

* ----

jaeger

English

(wikipedia jaeger)

Alternative forms

* jager, , yager

Noun

(en noun) (Stercorarius)

Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius

A hunter's guide

A rifle

* {{quote-magazine

, date=2007-01-16 , author=David E. Petzal , title=Rifle That Made America , magazine=Field and Stream citation , passage=The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ... }}

A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry

* {{quote-book

, year=2010 , author=(Newt Gingrich), , title=Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory , genre=Historical Fiction , publisher=St. Martin's Press , isbn=9780312591076 , passage= These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers . }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year=2011 , month=Spring , author=Adam Goodheart , title=Civil Warfare in the Streets , volume=80 , issue=2 , page=20-32 , magazine=American Scholar , passage=St. Louis, however, was not a place where such things could be kept secret for long. By early March, Democratic papers carried reports of a terrifying new battalion known as the Black Jaegers -- }}

Synonyms

* (bird of the genus Stercorarius) skua

Derived terms

* pomarine jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus * parasitic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus * long-tailed jaeger, Stercorarius longicaudus