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riffle


verb (used with or without object), rif·fled, rif·fling.

  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

  1. a rapid, as in a stream.
  2. a ripple, as upon the surface of water.
  3. 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.
  4. a hopper for distributing bulk material.
  5. the act or method of riffling cards.

verb

  1. (when intr , often foll by through) 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

noun

  1. US and Canadian
    1. a rapid in a stream
    2. a rocky shoal causing a rapid
    3. a ripple on water
  2. mining a contrivance on the bottom of a sluice, containing transverse grooves for trapping particles of gold
  3. the act or an instance of riffling
v.

1754, “to make choppy water,” American English, perhaps a variant of ruffle “make rough.” The word meaning “shuffle” (cards) is first recorded 1894, probably echoic; hence that of “skim, leaf through quickly” (of papers, etc.) is from 1922. Related: Riffled; riffling.

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