Crossword clues for raffle
raffle
- Fundraising event, sometimes
- Charity fundraiser
- Fund-raising lottery
- Drawing of a sort
- Church money raiser
- Ticket in a fund-raiser
- School fund-raiser
- Prize giveaway for which you buy tickets
- Lottery type
- Lottery of a sort
- It'll draw people to a drawing
- Fundraising device
- Fundraiser with tickets
- Fundraiser lottery
- Fund-raising medium
- Fund-raising device
- Fund-raiser with a drawing
- Drawing room event?
- Drawing of a school, perhaps
- Drawing activity
- Common fundraiser
- Charity moneymaker
- 50-50, for example
- Church drawing
- Chance happening
- Popular fund-raiser
- Something to take a chance on
- Popular money-raiser
- Kind of ticket
- Fund-raising option
- Many a school fund-raiser
- Drawing, often
- A lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- This gives you a chance
- Type of lottery
- Club fund-raiser
- Money raiser
- Lottery with goods as prizes
- Lottery with prizes
- Draw spirit miles up
- Ticket lottery
- Fund-raising event
- School fundraiser
- Fundraising option
- Fundraising event
- Church fund-raiser
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Raffle \Raf"fle\ (r[a^]f"f'l), n. [See Raff, n. & v., and Raffle.] Refuse; rubbish; raff.
Raffle \Raf"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Raffled (r[a^]f"f'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Raffling (r[a^]f"fl[i^]ng).] To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
Raffle \Raf"fle\, v. t. To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
Raffle \Raf"fle\ (r[a^]f"f'l), n. [F. rafle; faire rafle to sweep stakes, fr. rafler to carry or sweep away, rafler tout to sweep stakes; of German origin; cf. G. raffeln to snatch up, to rake. See Raff, 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.
A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes. [Obs.]
--Cotgrave.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "dice game," from Old French rafle "dice game," also "plundering," perhaps from a Germanic source (compare Middle Dutch raffel "dice game," Old Frisian hreppa "to move," Old Norse hreppa "to reach, get," Swedish rafs "rubbish," Old High German raspon "to scrape together, snatch up in haste," German raffen "to snatch away, sweep off"), from Proto-Germanic *khrap- "to pluck out, snatch off." The notion would be "to sweep up (the stakes), to snatch (the winnings)." Dietz connects the French word with the Germanic root, but OED is against this. Meaning "sale of chances" first recorded 1766.
"dispose of by raffle," 1851, from raffle (n.). Related: Raffled; raffling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize. 2 (context obsolete English) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off. 2 (context intransitive English) To participate in a raffle. Etymology 2
n. refuse; rubbish
WordNet
v. dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas" [syn: raffle off]
n. a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
Wikipedia
A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each ticket having the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn from a container holding a copy of every number. The drawn tickets are checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them, and the holder of the ticket wins the prize.
The raffle is a popular game in numerous countries and is often held to raise funds for a specific charity or event.
Usage examples of "raffle".
As he floated up through the great epergne of Old Raffles, he changed course to check on Floyt.
It must surely have been Raffles Haw with whom Hector Spurling had come in contact.
Lady Isabella Irby, who had been drawn, as a quiet spectatress, to the sight, by a friend, who, having never seen the humours of a raffle, had entreated, through her means, to look on.
Their packers are up, the stengahs are flowing free at the clubs, and even the old Raffles Hotel is very jammed and gay.
It must surely have been Raffles Haw with whom Hector Spurling had come in contact.
Motioning his visitor into a chair, Raffles Haw pulled off his coat, and, turning up the sleeves of his coarse flannel shirt, he began to plunge and scrub in the warm water which flowed from a tap in the wall.
Breakfast had hardly been cleared in the morning, and Robert had not yet ascended to his work, when there came a timid tapping at the door, and there was Raffles Haw on the mat outside.
The McIntyre family was seated at breakfast on the morning which followed the first visit of Raffles Haw, when they were surprised to hear the buzz and hum of a multitude of voices in the village street.
In every good deed, however, Raffles Haw still remained in the background, while the vicar and Robert had the pleasant task of conveying his benefits to the lowly and the suffering.
Such were the deeds by which Raffles Haw made himself known throughout the Midlands, and yet, in spite of all his open-handedness, he was not a man to be imposed upon.
But if, as Raffles Haw held, there were few limits to the power of immense wealth, it possessed, among other things, the power of self-preservation, as one or two people were to learn to their cost.
That morning, and many mornings both before and afterwards, were spent by Laura at the New Hall examining the treasures of the museum, playing with the thousand costly toys which Raffles Haw had collected, or sallying out from the smoking-room in the crystal chamber into the long line of luxurious hot-houses.
His joy in his art had become less keen since he had known Raffles Haw.
And so Laura McIntyre became duly engaged to Raffles Haw, and old McIntyre grew even more hungry-looking as he felt himself a step nearer to the source of wealth, while Robert thought less of work than ever, and never gave as much as a thought to the great canvas which still stood, dust-covered, upon his easel.
Wonderful had been the fate allotted to Raffles Haw, but surely hardly less important that which had come upon himself.