riffle
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əl verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1.
to turn hastily; flutter and shift: to riffle a stack of letters; to riffle through a book.
2.
Cards. to shuffle by dividing the deck in two, raising the corners slightly, and allowing them to fall alternately together.
3.
to cause or become a riffle.
noun
4.
a rapid, as in a stream.
5.
a ripple, as upon the surface of water.
6.
Mining. the lining of transverse bars or slats on the bed of a sluice, arranged so as to catch heavy minerals, as gold or platinum.
7.
a hopper for distributing bulk material.
8.
the act or method of riffling cards.
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| —vb (when intr | |
| 1. | to flick rapidly through (the pages of a book, magazine, etc), esp in a desultory manner |
| 2. | to shuffle (playing cards) by halving the pack and flicking the adjacent corners together |
| 3. | to make or become a riffle |
| —n | |
| 4. | (US), (Canadian) |
| a. a rapid in a stream | |
| b. a rocky shoal causing a rapid | |
| c. a ripple on water | |
| 5. | mining a contrivance on the bottom of a sluice, containing transverse grooves for trapping particles of gold |
| 6. | the act or an instance of riffling |
| [C18: probably from | |
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Word Origin & History
riffle
1754, "to make choppy water," Amer.Eng., perhaps a variant of ruffle "make rough." The word meaning "shuffle" (cards) is first recorded 1894, probably echoic; that of "skim, leaf through quickly" is from 1922.
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Example sentences
Riffle gradient: the change in elevation from the top to the bottom of riffle divided by the length of the riffle.
Pool riffle complexes are designed to direct the flow towards the center of the channel.
Riffle length: the thalweg distance between the top and bottom of a riffle.
Riffle areas offered cobble and boulders as well as water willow as primary cover types.
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