These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'riffle.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Nov. 2022 This particular riffle had six species, including the Texas logperch and the Guadalupe bass, both of which have been historically scarce in the Mission Reach. Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. Nathan Luna, ABC News, 17 June 2022 The riffle beetle lives in the water but can’t swim, and has wings but can’t fly. In mining, the sectional stone or wood bottom lining of a sluice, arranged for trapping mineral particles, as of gold. A stretch of choppy water caused by such a shoal or sandbar a rapid. A constructed riffle is a grade control and habitat structure built by placing river cobble in a stream to create changes in flows that benefit aquatic organisms. 2022 Online and at gun shows his company sells a range of gear from ballistic helmets to concealable armor to military-style vests that are able to take several hits from riffle rounds. A rocky shoal or sandbar lying just below the surface of a waterway. Font Size: CNN invented their own definition of an assault rifle to include handguns and shotguns on Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom. 2022 Benson’s friend, river guide Pete Lefebvre, pointed to a muddy riffle upstream of the ramp, near where the Dirty Devil River meets the Colorado, fresh evidence of a fast-changing landscape. A contrivance, as of bars or slats, put across the bottom of a sluice to form grooves or open spaces for catching and holding particles of gold in mining. 2023 Weirs and riffle pools would be part of the project. Riffle definition: The act or an instance of shuffling cards. 2023 Here the river is 40-feet wide and forms a riffle and run that drops to about 4 feet in depth. The universal riffle splitting principle: a collimated stream of matter is split by a series of juxtaposed riffles (chutes) leading to a number of slices of the stream into two alternative sub-sample reservoirs. Cards to shuffle by dividing the deck in two, raising the corners slightly, and allowing them to fall alternately together 3. to turn hastily flutter and shift to riffle a stack of letters to riffle through a book 2. Noun Beneath our breathy hollers, a river runs dark, sprays of pebble -leaping riffles instantly aloft: Corona crowns the south: Hole edged with brimming sprays of light! - Christopher Cokinos, Scientific American, 1 Mar. riffle in American English (rfl) (verb -fled, -fling) transitive verb or intransitive verb 1.
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