Raffle

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·v Refuse; rubbish; raff.

II. Raffle ·vi To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

III. Raffle ·v A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

IV. Raffle ·vt To dispose of by means of a raffle;

— often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

V. Raffle ·v 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.

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