riffle vs rifle
Definitions
verb
- look through a book or other written material
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- twitch or flutter
noun
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
Examples
He puts down the pen and uses the free hand to riffle some pages -- But there weren't such bruises in this case?
It'll be nice to open the parcel and riffle through the pages of a new book.
She finishes rehearsal, returns to her rented atelier in Chelsea and riffles through her (mostly Canadian) collection of music.
Definitions
verb
- steal goods; take as spoils
- go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
noun
- a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
Examples
If you've been to the crossroads, and made the deal, and got the mojo — which turns out to be dependent on a great deal of hard work and practice, just like sleight-of-hand — wouldn't you maybe get a trifle riled by that kind of misjudgment from time to time?
Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play.
On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
