Crossword-Solution: RAFFLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Raffle | v. | A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor. |
| Raffle | v. | A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes. |
| Raffle | v. i. | To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch. |
| Raffle | v. t. | To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RAFFLE | anagram | FARFEL |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with RAFFLE (5)
They descended to the lower floor and involved themselves for a moment in the throng of fashionables that blocked the hallway and the entrance to the main room, where the numbers of the raffle were being drawn.
Then came a bull’s-eye flash of struggling moonshine, which disclosed their four figures standing huddled from the wind in a raffle of flying drapery, and not without a considerable need for more.
Mightn’t a’ seen it now, only the missus cleared the raffle out of the chest, and, ‘Give me that paper,’ I says, seeing it in her hand; and I fell to reading it, for a man’ll read anything bar tracts lying in bed eight months, as I’ve been with the dropsy.
After declining to throw I went on throwing the dice for amusement, and was surprised to find that every throw was better than the one I had in the raffle.
Well, our purchases were all packed into two or three rucksacks, and were kept for a raffle in Unter-Toifen on the way back.
Quotes with RAFFLE (3)
There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren't the two things you must do. Unless you're saying, if you can be in good humor when you're exhausted. — Henry Cabot Lodge
Do not allow your children to celebrate the days on which unbelief and superstition are being catered to. They are admittedly inclined to want this because they see that the children of Roman Catholic parents observe those days. Do not let them attend carnivals, observe Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras), see Santa Claus, or observe Twelfth Night, because they are all remnants of an idolatrous papacy. You must not keep your children out of school or from work on those days nor let t…
It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the raffle tickets (because the pretty red-haired music teacher asks you to) and win a bottle of whiskey (all school raffles are fixed), and, before you know where you are, you're turning up at the weekly school council meetings, organizing concerts, discussing plans for a new music department, donating funds for the rejuvenation of the water fountains — you're implicated in the sch…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 59 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).