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Definition of Riflings
1. rifling [n] - See also: rifling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riflings
Literary usage of Riflings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1884)
"The term "riflings" is applied to the bristles which fall to the floor during the
... White stock is always handled by itself, so that white riflings rarely ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"Number of riflings to the Turn While the markings are commonly spoken of as
riflings, it might be better to designate them as threads, owing to their ..."
3. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1917)
"The opinion generally held by those who have observed the phenomena is that the
riflings are produced directly or indirectly by vibration, but so far as the ..."
4. Transactions by Metallurgical Society of AIME. (1917)
"riflings were also produced on the inner surface of cylinders, a long cutter-bar
... The action of a lathe when producing riflings or thread-like markings ..."
5. Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of (1907)
"There are marks in its interior which look, at first sight, like rifling, but
they do not extend very far up from the muzzle, and if they were riflings must ..."
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