rihlat — meaning in English

English meaning

• dress verb To put clothes on yourself or someone else, such as a doll or mannequin.
• rifling noun The spiral grooves cut inside a gun barrel to spin the bullet for accuracy, or the process of making them.

Senses

rihlat is used for these senses in English:

• dress (archaic, historical) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• rifling (military) The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

dress — full definition

1. verb To put clothes on yourself or someone else, such as a doll or mannequin.
2. verb To get yourself or someone else ready, in suitable or stylish clothes, for a particular event.
3. verb To create, supply or choose clothing for someone.
4. verb To style or arrange someone's hair.

rifling — full definition

1. noun The spiral grooves cut inside a gun barrel to spin the bullet for accuracy, or the process of making them.
2. noun The act of shuffling playing cards by letting them cascade from one hand into the other.

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