Raffle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAFFLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to dispose of by tickets of chance
• offer as a prize in a raffle
• 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.
• A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
• To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
• To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
• dispose of in a lottery
NOUN:
• a means of raising money by selling numbered tickets, one or some of which are subsequently drawn at random, the holder or holders of such tickets winning a prize
• rubbish; refuse
• lottery with goods as prizes
• a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dispose of by a form of lottery

Words related to RAFFLE

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Words that contain RAFFLE

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How to use RAFFLE in a sentence

• A raffle of trailing ropes entangled him as he struck out to swim.
• In all my description of the watch I had merely described my own, a very cheap affair which I had won at a raffle.
• Some of her lower sails still stood, and her crew were busily at work cutting loose the raffle and beating out the flames.
• People seemed to have an idea that the raffle was for a gondola, and they thought it would look beautiful on the pond in front of the Town Hall.
• Every night for the payment of subscriptions, a raffle takes place for the muskets, which the members are enabled to procure with the subscriptions.
• However, the being told, in a multitude of ingenious forms, that I am a wretched logician, is not likely to raffle my tranquillity.
• This compelled us to desist and fall to baling with might and main, leaving the raffle and jagged end of the mast to bump against us at the will of the waves.
• Ultimately Christian laid down his shilling, the raffle began, and the dice went round.
• Everything beautiful or rare garnered in the homes of the rich was given for exhibition, and in some cases for raffle and sale.
• At the suggestion of a number of friends, all of whom wanted him, I put him up at a raffle, selling ten chances at thirty dollars each, which were all quickly taken.
• Would Your Grace hold me greatly to blame were I to raffle them at our next rummage sale? I feel sure they would fetch a good price.
• I might be able to raise quite a nice sum for our local Seed Potato Committee by a Spring raffle of my longer and more elaborate compositions.
• And since everybody is beginning to take a modern view of Bonus Bonds I do not think that a raffle for such a purpose need arouse serious opposition.
• Daring bareback riding, trained elephants and a peanut-eating contest, likewise an egg-hunting raffle.
• Before he could answer a voice hailed us over stern, and we hurried aft to find Billy Priske dragging himself towards the ship by the raffle of mizzen-rigging.
• The coat he had won in a bet, and the breeches in a raffle, the latter being then second or third hand.

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