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Riffle

verb

Twitch or flutter. Synonyms: flick, ruffle.

Look through a book or other written material. Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb. "She leafed through the volume"

Stir up (water) so as to form ripples. Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate.

Shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix.

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"Riffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... placed in the hopper of the cradle which separates the larger stones and pebbles, the remainder passing down over inclined ledges as the cradle is slowly rocked and supplied with water. At the bottom of each ledge is a riffle to arrest the particles of gold. Sometimes, when the gold is very fine, amalgamated copper plates are introduced and the lower ledges are covered with green baize to act as blanket tables and catch gold which ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson

... thick as hail. Grabbin' de cane-brakes, up I goes, han' ober han', han' ober han'. De rocks stop flyin'. I looks behin' me to see fur why. Dar goes Black Thunder drivin' 'cross de riber down at de riffle, makin' de water fly befo' him like a runaway hoss. O my little marster! Up I goes, in double-quick time. Half way up I sees a painter a-grinnin' down at me frum a tree on de bank. Didn't like his looks, ...

— Burl • Morrison Heady

... the stream for several miles. Then, according to agreement, they hauled in at the head of the rapids for a little rest and consultation before making the riffle. ...

— The Outdoor Chums After Big Game - Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness • Captain Quincy Allen

... that things came 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 ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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