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Riffle   /rˈɪfəl/   Listen
Riffle

noun
1.
A small wave on the surface of a liquid.  Synonyms: ripple, rippling, wavelet.
2.
Shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners.






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"Riffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... to a decisive pass on a July day in the late '80's when the two Tatums sent word to the two Stackpoles that at or about six o'clock of that evening they would come down the side road from their place a mile away to Stackpole Brothers' gristmill above the big riffle in Cache Creek prepared to fight it out man to man. The warning was explicit enough—the Tatums would shoot on sight. The message was meant for two, but only one brother heard it; for Jeffrey Stackpole, the senior member of the firm, was sick abed with heart disease ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... The deserted building seemed to be getting on his nerves, for he went behind the bar several times and, with shaking fingers, poured stiff drinks of red whisky. Then he walked to one of the deserted card tables and began to riffle ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens



Words linked to "Riffle" :   shuffle, moving ridge, flux, peruse, fold, fold up, mix, displace, move, card game, shuffling, turn up, wave, cards, flow, make



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