单词 | raffling |
释义 | rafflingn.1 The act or an instance of participating in or organizing a raffle; (also) the action or practice of raffling something.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΚΠ 1682 London Gaz. No. 1773/4 A newly invented Lottery, under the name of the Riffling or Raffling Lottery. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1950/4 To keep Rafflings, Ordinaries, and other publick Games. 1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer ii. i You have so many rafflings, and whoever throws most you win the prize. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 11. ⁋4 Never was a Subscription for a Raffling or an Opera more crowded. 1779 F. Burney Let. 10 Oct. (1994) III. 360 The chief Diversion..seems to be Raffling, & the chief object for the Raffles..is Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 371/2 The most lucrative part of the trade is in the raffling. 1882 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 164 The raffling at fairs owes its popularity to the success that attends every kind of appeal to this irrational propensity, and to the incessant demand for nervous excitation. 1903 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 20 Dec. 5/6 The announcement of the intention of the grand jury to consider raffling as gambling, and prosecute accordingly, will make a sensation. 1945 F. A. Sweet Hudson River School 14 Since the tickets sold slowly, the actual raffling of these pictures did not take place until October 23. 1991 Amer. Square Dance May 92/2 Some clubs have used the tactic of raffling. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1682 London Gaz. No. 1773/4 A newly invented Lottery, under the name of the Riffling or Raffling Lottery. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (1967) 176 Raffling for all Things Vendible is the great Diversion; no Shop wanting two or three Raffling-Boards. 1720 J. Gay Poems Several Occasions II. 355 'Twas there the raffling dice false Damon threw; The raffling dice to him decide the prize. 1795 J. O'Keefe Irish Mimic i. ii. 13 I thought I'd stay here a few days longer, if only to pick up, among their bathing shops, and raffling Machines, a new stock of originals. 1826 Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterbro Gaz. 11 Feb. in C. Morsley News from Eng. Countryside (1979) 229 Crowland Shrove Tuesday fair, or ‘raffling day’ as it is generally called, it being the custom to cast dice for sweetmeats in lieu of purchasing them. 1887 Science 4 Feb. 116/1 The human mind is not calculated to act like a die-box of a raffling-wheel. 1912 Charleroi (Pa.) Mail 24 Dec. The knell on the raffling game is to sound the first of the year. C2. raffling shop n. now historical and rare an establishment where raffles are held. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > places raffling shop1691 lottery office1735 1691 R. Ames Islington-Wells 11 Some to the Raffling-shop advance, To see the strange effects of Chance. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 253 About the pumps..there are raffling shops, coffee-houses, and all other diversions. 1845 N.Y. Herald 9 Nov. 2/6 Winter has brought with it many concomitant evils, the most serious and aggravated of which are the numerous raffling shops which are brought into existence, under the shallow pretext of giving working men and mechanics chances of procuring poultry ‘very cheap’. 1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. (1968) II. xv. 396 Lotteries flourished in the American provinces. It was a wonderful zest to shopping to do it through lottery tickets... Raffling-shops were in every city. 1951 W. W. Addison Eng. Spas 49 Hampstead's raffling-shop is said to have been set up by a lawyer as an ‘easier way of conveyancing and alienating estates from one family to another’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rafflingn.2 Architecture. Now rare. The action of indenting or serrating a leaf; (also) the edge of a leaf thus serrated. Cf. raffle v.2 1. ΚΠ 1768 Ware's Compl. Body Archit. (new ed.) iii. iii. 384 The raffling of the leaves, and dividing them by the laurel or olive compartition,..would have a look of great elegance. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 26 The best examples have all some trifling difference, principally in the raffling of the leaves. 1852 E. Lomax & T. Gunyon Nicholson's Encycl. Archit. I. 204/2 This process being only a preliminary, though necessary step to the raffling of the leaves, the general contours, thus found, must be rubbed out. 1913 T. G. Jackson Byzantine & Romanesque Archit. II. 104 There is no trace of Byzantine feeling in the leaves, which have the deep channelled folds, the piping and the rounded raffling of the Roman type. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11682n.21768 |
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