riffle vs rifle
Definitions
verb
- look through a book or other written material
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- twitch or flutter
noun
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
Examples
In natural streams coho salmon and steelhead trout fry tend to occupy pools and riffles, respectively.
Two strips of wood, about an inch square, called riffle-bars, were nailed across the bottom of the cradle-box, one at the middle and the other near the lower end.
The mild rapids turn to riffles and become fewer and fewer from here to the takeout.
Definitions
verb
- steal goods; take as spoils
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
noun
- a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
Examples
If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time?
Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play.
On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
