Crossword-Solution: RIFFLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Riffle | n. | A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “RIFFLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mode of shuffling cards. | 1 answer |
| Way of mixing cards. | 1 answer |
| Type of shuffle | 1 answer |
| Turn hastily | 1 answer |
| Thumb through, as pages | 1 answer |
| Thumb the pages | 1 answer |
| Shuffle cards in a way | 1 answer |
| Rearrange before dealing | 1 answer |
| PLAYING card shuffle | 1 answer |
| Mix up, as a deck of cards | 1 answer |
| Mix the deck | 1 answer |
| Mix cards | 1 answer |
| Leaf, as through a catalog | 1 answer |
| Leaf through rapidly | 1 answer |
| Flick through rapidly | 1 answer |
| Thumb (through) | 5 answers |
| Leaf (through) | 7 answers |
| Fret. | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RIFFLE (5)
She has now a typewriting bureau in Riffle’s Inn, and she runs it with a brisk vigour and considerable success, albeit a certain plumpness has overtaken her.
California sniffed up-stream and down-stream, across the racing water, chose his ground, and let the gaudy fly drop in the tail of a riffle.
Then it became clear that here is a key to the phenomena of atmospheric circulation, from the great polar-equatorial maelstrom which manifests itself in the trade-winds to the most circumscribed riffle which is announced as a local storm.
About a mile above the riffle, a dry wash cut a gash in the bluff bank on the opposite side, which promised the necessary passageway for the herds out of the river.
Last fall, a year gone, 'twas Sitka Charley and meself saw the sight, droppin' down the riffle ye'll remember below Fort Reliance.
Quotes with RIFFLE (3)
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titles I could — nearly filled the box. But one of the more eccentric librarians at the internment compound I’d gotten permission to riffle had put up a whole shelf full of cubes of women writers or texts about women. She was convinced nobody could be truly educated unless they’d read them — though nobody I ever met had, except her, maybe. […]
No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).