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rifled

adjetivo C2
  1. Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
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Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed—the word is passed to the Professor, the matter is organized and carried out.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 105 · B2
The police theory is that a most sensational crime has been committed, that the victim was clubbed to death in his own bedroom, his papers rifled, and his dead body dragged across to the wood-stack, which was then ignited so as to hide all traces of the crime.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 39 · C1

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