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riffle
[ rif-uhl ]
verb (used with or without object)
, rif·fled, rif·fling.
- to turn hastily; flutter and shift:
to riffle a stack of letters; to riffle through a book.
- Cards. to shuffle by dividing the deck in two, raising the corners slightly, and allowing them to fall alternately together.
- to cause or become a riffle.
noun
- a rapid, as in a stream.
- a ripple, as upon the surface of water.
- 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.
- a hopper for distributing bulk material.
- the act or method of riffling cards.
riffle
/ ˈrɪfəl /
verb
- whenintr, often foll by through to flick rapidly through (the pages of a book, magazine, etc), esp in a desultory manner
- to shuffle (playing cards) by halving the pack and flicking the adjacent corners together
- to make or become a riffle
noun
- a rapid in a stream
- a rocky shoal causing a rapid
- a ripple on water
- mining a contrivance on the bottom of a sluice, containing transverse grooves for trapping particles of gold
- the act or an instance of riffling
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- un·riffled adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of riffle1
C18: probably from ruffle 1, influenced by ripple 1
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Example Sentences
The river was low, but not fordable except at Coxe's Riffle, a few miles below Steubenville.
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We might have made the riffle, I guess, if Denny hadn't played out and tumbled from his saddle.
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He watched the two Lhari riffle through his papers with their odd pointed claws.
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Riffle—A groove or strip to catch gold and mercury in a sluice.
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I'll go in just below the riffle and explore the cellar-hole!
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