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raffle

Pronunciation: /ˈɹæfl̩/

The English word “raffle” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
  2. A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
  3. The system by which cases are assigned to judges in multi-sala courts.
  4. Refuse; rubbish.

verb

  1. To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing.
  2. To participate in a raffle.

Etymology

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 *hrapōną, *hrēpōną (“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…

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