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rifling
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rifling [′rīf·liŋ]
(mechanical engineering)
The technique of cutting helical grooves inside a rifle barrel to impart a spinning motion to a projectile around its long axis.


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Keeping orgasm at bay, this fetishistic sexuality replaces the metaphoric impulse towards union with a metonymic "veering off of signification" (Lacan 160) and tropes it as Will's successive riflings of the "unknown sensual store" that diverts and distracts him.
 
 
 
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