raffle

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The grand prize for the raffle is a trip for two to the Nebraska / Kansas game, with excellent seats.

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  1. noun A lottery in which a number of persons buy chances to win a prize.
  2. transitive verb To dispose of in a raffle. Often used with off.
  3. intransitive verb To conduct or take part in a raffle.
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  • Entry forms for the raffle are also available online - at www. house.genesischristianacademy.net - or can be picked up directly from the school, located at 12061 FM 466 in Seguin. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • First prize in the raffle is a week in Squaw Valley and you can still buy tickets. —  J. Weekly
  • The grand prize for the raffle is a trip for two to the Nebraska / Kansas game, with excellent seats. —  McCook Daily Gazette Headlines
  • The drawing of the numbers in the raffle was about to be made. —  The Octopus : A story of California
  • At times, Mr. O'Brodereque's customers have the very unenviable consolation of knowing that a small document called a mortgage of their real and personal property remains in his hands, which he will very soon find it necessary to foreclose It is dark,--night has stolen upon us again,--the hour for the raffle is at hand. —  Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
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  1. Middle English rafle, a game using dice, from Old French, act of seizing, dice game, perhaps of Germanic origin.
  2. Probably from French rafle, act of seizing, from Old French; see raffle1.

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  1. from Middle English rafle, a game at dice (= Swedish raffel, a raffle); from Old French rafle, raffle, French rafle, a pair royal at dice (faire rafle, sweep the stakes), also a grape-stalk, from rafler, snatch, seize, carry off, from German raffeln, snatch up, freq. of raffen, snatch, snatch away, carry off hastily: see raff, v. Cf. raffle.
  2. = Swedish raffla = Danish rafle, ruffle; from the noun.
  3. Perhaps from Icelandic hrafla, scrape together (a slang term); cf. hrapa, hurry, hasten: see raff, v. Cf. raffle.
  4. from raffle, v. Cf. raff, n.
  5. Origin obscure.
 

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