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rihla.

riffle (cleat or groove in the bottom of a sluice box, causing the heavy particles such as pieces of gold to fall to the bottom of the box while the lighter particles are flushed away with water)

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈrihlɑ/[ˈriçlɑ̝]
  1. riffle (cleat or groove in the bottom of a sluice box, causing the heavy particles such as pieces of gold to fall to the bottom of the box while the lighter particles are flushed away with water)

  2. rifle (one of the grooves inside the barrel of a firearm that improve its range and accuracy)

  3. rifling (grooves in a gun barrel)

    in-plural
  4. dress (system of furrows on the face of a millstone)

    in-plural
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish rifla (compare standard Swedish räffla, Danish riffel), from Low German riffel (compare archaic Dutch rijfelen), originally a frequentative derivation tracing back to Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

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