Raffle Definition

răfəl

raffled, raffles, raffling

noun

raffles

A lottery in which each participant buys a chance or chances to win a prize.

Webster's New World

Rubbish; debris.

American Heritage

A jumble or tangle, esp. of ropes, canvas, etc. on a ship.

Webster's New World

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.

Wiktionary

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verb

raffled, raffles, raffling

To offer as a prize in a raffle.

Webster's New World

To dispose of in a raffle. Often used with off.

American Heritage

To take part in a raffle.

Webster's New World

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Other Word Forms of Raffle

Singular:

raffle

Plural:

From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering"), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off"), from Frankish *raffolōn, from Proto-Germanic *hrapōnÄ…, *hrÄ“pōnÄ… (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend"). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game"), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off"), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack").

From Wiktionary
Middle English rafle a game using dice from Old French act of seizing, dice game perhaps of Germanic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Probably from French rafle act of seizing from Old French raffle¹

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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