Raffles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RAFFLES in dictionary:

VERB:
• RAFFLE, to dispose of by tickets of chance
• offer as a prize in a raffle
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
• British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dispose of by a form of lottery

Words related to RAFFLES

raffle12 raffled14 raffling15

Words that contain RAFFLES

paraffles17 rafflesia15 rafflesias16

How to use RAFFLES in a sentence

• She had a huge taste for cheap finery, loved raffles, tea-parties, and walks on the pier, where she flaunted herself and daughters as gay as butterflies.
• At the place indicated by the Malays, which was in Raffles Bay, the chief spoke quite excellent English.
• He first led me to an old white settlement in Raffles Bay, called, I think, Fort Wellington, where I found some large fruit-trees, including ripe yellow mangoes.
• Survey of Goulburn Islands, Mountnorris and Raffles Bays.
• This passage relates to the natives of Raffles Bay on the extreme north of the continent of Australia, whereas I have observed the custom in the South-western parts of Australia.
• He was perhaps fuller of this virtue than any other body in Ballybun, and his house was packed with things he had won at raffles.
• According to Sir Stamford Raffles it is taught to climb the cocoa palms for the fruit for its master, and to select only those that are ripe.
• Raffles, however, gives two as the number produced at each birth.
• Raffles describes one that roamed freely all over the house, presenting himself regularly at meal-times for milk and fruit.
• The young seem to be easily tamed, according to Sir Stamford Raffles, who describes two which he had in confinement.
• Wilson, in his Voyage round the World, mentions that he crossed several parts of the Sahul Shoal on his passage from Timor to Raffles Bay, and never found less than 14 fathoms.
• In short, I may say that the settlement was fast approaching the state in which was that at Raffles Bay when it was abandoned.
• Raffles, who boasted the possession of one of the finest collections of autographs in England.
• Both Raffles and Marsden consider this type of plow of Chinese origin.
• One of his favorite flyers was chances in lotteries and raffles, which, if now found only in association with church fairs, were then not merely respectable, but even fashionable.
• Success, Captain Stirling, with a convoy of three vessels conveying troops, convicts, stores, and provisions, sailed from Sydney, and arrived at Raffles Bay on June 17th, 1827.
• Raffles, there was in 1819 a plantation at Bencoolen of 100,000 nutmeg trees, one-fourth of which were bearing.
• The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest.
• This, as we are told by Sir Stamford Raffles, far exceeded in force and duration any of the known outbreaks of Etna or Vesuvius.

Similar words containing RAFFLE without suffix s

raffle12 raffled14 raffler13 paraffle16 rafflers14 paraffles17 rafflesia15 rafflesias16

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