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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

... the slow goose step—much admired by Colonel Stewart, who pointed them out to one of his captains as wonders of precision, and also distinguished themselves in eating. They failed several times under fire, once they caused a riffle of real excitement in Archangel when they started a mutiny, and finally they were used chiefly as labor units and as valets and batmen for officers and horses. They were charged with having a mutinous spirit and with plotting to go over to the Bolsheviks. They did in small numbers at times. ...

— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore

... kept them out; gallynippers, whatever they were, certainly did not; they were believed to abound at the bottom of the deep holes; but the boys never stayed long in the deep holes, and they preferred the shallow places, where the river broke into a long ripple (they called it riffle) on its gravelly bed, and where they could at once soak and bask in the musical rush of the sunlit waters. I have heard people in New England blame all the Western rivers for being yellow and turbid; but I know that after the spring floods, when the Miami had settled down to its summer business ...

— Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells • William Dean Howells

... other, confidently; "but that's my long suit, you ought to know. Never yet did git lost, an' I reckon I ain't a-goin' to do it now. I'll lay it all out and make the riffle, don't ...

— The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound - A Tour on Skates and Iceboats • George A. Warren

Words linked to "Riffle" : peruse, shuffling, thumb, card game, displace, cards, flip, ruffle, cockle, mix, moving ridge, undulate, leaf, make, flux, shuffle