Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to have sexual intercourse; thus rifler, n., a prostitute’s customer.

1560		Becon Inuectiue Agaynst Whoredome in Works 294: Down with those maids that for a trifle / Will suffre men with them to tryfle / And both theyr bodies and clothes ryfle.
1604		Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 V ii: I thinke I rifled her of some such paltry Iewell.
1622		Massinger Virgin Martyr IV i: Breake that enchanted Caue, enter, and rifle The spoyles thy lust hunts after.
c.1637		R. Brome Damoiselle V i: But is the house cleare, Sir, of all your Riflers?
1641		J. Shirley Cardinal V i: I’ll rifle first her darling chastity.
c.1660		‘Be not afrayd’ in Furnivall & Hales Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript of Loose and Humorous Songs (1868) 47: Then lets imbrace, & riffle & trifle.
1674		‘Trap’ Pepys Ballads (1987) III 17: A blunt Lieutenant surprized my Placket, And fiercely began to rifle, and sack it.
1708		N. Ward Mars Stript of his Armour 68: [He will] rifle a Lady’s Placket, and search her Pockets into the Bargain.
1733		Cibber Harlot’s Progress 9: While me he is rifling, I’ll rifle his Purse.
1741		‘Capt. Samuel Cock’ Voyage to Lethe 29: I order’d the long Boat to be mann’d, and we boarded her. After rifling the Prize of all we could, we quitted her.
1770		T. Chatterton Revenge II i: I’ll fly to her arms, / And rifle her charms, / In kisses and compliments lavish.
1790		‘Bumper Allnight. Esquire’ Honest Fellow 22: Thus lock’d within each other’s arms, / I rifled all my Delia’s charms.
1801		‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Orson & Ellen’ Works (1801) V 388: Tarquin stole, in dead of night, To fair Lucretia’s arms; And, to her vast astonishment, Did rifle all her charms.
1819		Beppo in London xiii: His affection was stifled, Nor Madame B----- of her honour rifled.
1837		‘The Ladies & the Candle’ Ri-tum Ti-tum Songster 13: So Ned he made poor Betty drunk [...] Carried her up stairs to bed, / And rifled all her charms.
1841		‘The Gown Of Green’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 22: When I rifled her charms, she so wriggled her bum, / That it was not long before I did come.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers [15]: [H]e rumbles you rifling one of his Roger Moores in the sauna.