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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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Riffling
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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