riffle Definition
rif·fle (rif′əl)
noun
- ☆
- a shoal, reef, or shallow in a stream, producing a stretch of ruffled or choppy water
- a stretch of such water
- a ripple or the ripples of such water
- a contrivance, as of bars or slats, put across the bottom of a sluice to form grooves or open spaces for catching and holding particles of gold in mining
- any of the bars, slats, etc.
- any of the grooves or spaces
- the act or a manner of riffling cards
Etymology: < ? or akin to Ger riffel, groove, furrow < EFris, akin to OE rifelung, wrinkle < IE base *rei-, to tear > reap
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·fled, -·fling
- to form, become, or flow over or through, a riffle
- to leaf rapidly through (a book, etc.), as by letting the edges or corners of the pages slip lightly across the thumb
- to shuffle (playing cards) by holding part of the deck in each hand, raising the corners or edges slightly, and causing the cards to fall alternately together
Etymology: < ? Ger riffeln, to form riffles, groove: see rifflethe
riffle Usage Examples
Preposition: for
fish: These help to create pools and riffles for fish to spawn.
Adjective modifier
- shallow: And secondly there are the shallow riffles, which are easy to fish but rarely hold anything worth catching.
- little: I cast up a tiny little riffle and kept just going a little too far to the left.
Modifies a noun
- shuffle: The Zarrow Shuffle is the ultimate false riffle shuffle.
- section: At stream sites, five replicated one minute kick sample units will be collected from riffle sections.
Modifying Another Word
then: You then riffle through them until they say STOP Show the card they stopped at.
Noun used with modifier

