Rifle vs Yager - What's the difference?

rifle | yager |

As a verb rifle

is .

As a noun yager is

(us|obsolete) a heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle.

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

* ----

yager

English

Noun

(en noun)

(US, obsolete) A heavy, muzzle-loading hunting rifle

*{{quote-book, year=1857, author=Mayne Reid, title=The War Trail, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=There are fourscore of them; and but that each carries a yager rifle in his hand, a knife in his belt, and a Colt's pistol on his thigh, you could not discover the slightest point of resemblance between any two of them. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1874, author=Mayne Reid, title=The Death Shot, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Many present identify it as the yager usually carried by Clancy. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1879, author=William F. Cody, title=The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers. }}

A , an elite soldier of the Austrian army

*{{quote-book, year=1863, author=Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle, title=Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Most of the officers were dressed in

*{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Maurus Jokai, title=Manasseh, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=A battalion of yagers , the pride of the Austrian army, charged up the fatal hill and succeeded in taking it, after which the rattle of musketry beyond announced that the fight was being continued on the farther side. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1926, author=John Marshall, title=The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Three days after this affair, Colonel Richard Butler, with a detachment of infantry, assisted by Major Lee with a part of his cavalry, fell in with a small party of chasseurs and yagers' under Captain Donop, which he instantly charged, and, without the loss of a man, killed ten on the spot, and took the officer commanding the chasseur, and eighteen of the ' yagers , prisoners. }}