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Definition of Rifflers
1. riffler [n] - See also: riffler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifflers
Literary usage of Rifflers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Catalogue of Artificial Teeth, Dental Materials, Instruments, Tools by Claudius Ash & Sons, Claudius Ash, Sons and Company (1880)
"... will fit into chucks suitable for Lathes, pages 205 to 207, and Lathe-heads,
pages 208 and 210. Chucks, Steel, to carry the above. sd each 6 6 rifflers ..."
2. The File in History: A Description of the Development of the File from the (1921)
"Slightly longer than the above, but considerably heavier in stock, with more
cutting surface, are the French rifflers, the set composed mostly of rasp-cut ..."
3. Drop Forging, Die Sinking and Machine Forming of Steel: Modern Shop Practice by Joseph Vincent Woodworth (1911)
"6 shows a few of the tools, scrapers, and rifflers used in the finishing work.
... Scrapers, files, rifflers, etc., used by die-sinkers. and are ground or ..."
4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1882)
"rifflers. (Plate XV.) rifflers are usually curved at both ends, the middle portion
being used for a handle. ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1889)
"... and Soldiers (as well of other Regiments as the rifflers) for their alacrity
yesterday, in pushing thro' the water, to get to the Enemy on ..."
6. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... were nailed two or three little strips of wood about an inch in height, called
sometimes "bars" and sometimes "rifflers" but more properly "cleats," one ..."
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