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noun

Riffle n.

(Mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.

A ripple in a stream or current of water; also, a place where the water ripples, as on a shallow rapid. (Local, U. S.) "The bass have left the cool depth beside the rock and are on the riffle or just below it."

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Etymology of 'Riffle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Riffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... on that line—you remimber that. Prisintly a bell rang, an' they throops off to a big pay-shed. 'Where's the white man in charge?' sez I to my kyart-dhriver. 'In the shed,' sez he, 'engaged on a riffle,'—'A fwhat?' sez I. 'Riffle,' sez he, 'You take ticket. He take money. You get nothin'.—'Oho!' sez I, 'that's fwhat the shuperior an' cultivated man calls a raffle, me misbeguided child av darkness an' sin. Lead on to that raffle, though fwhat the mischief 'tis doin' so far away from ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

Words linked to "Riffle" : leaf, turn up, rippling, ripple, make, cockle, flick, wavelet, riff, flip, shuffle, thumb, displace, cards, undulate, moving ridge, card game