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rafale
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French rafale. In the military context the term may well be obsolete in English; it had been been introduced into French military usage by General Hippolyte Langlois in the late nineteenth century, and adopted into English and American usage not long after, but the usage seems to have petered out in English by the end of World War I.
Noun
rafale (plural rafales)
- (military) A short, intense burst of artillery fire from a number of weapons fired with the intention of overwhelming resistance or routing an attacking force.
- 1903, Andrew Hero Jr., "Opening & Conduct of Fire", Antiaircraft Journal, vol. 20, page 47
- […] a salvo is […] a succession of shots […] with the same elevation... a single shot for each piece. By a rafale is meant all the shots of a battery fired with the same elevation, without any determined order, at the rate of more than one shot per gun. According to circumstances, three different kinds of fire are employed ... first, progressive fire; second, fire with a single elevation; third, fire by salvos or by rafales...
- 1916, John Buchan, "Greenmantle"
- And then, above the hum of the roadside, rose the voice of the great guns. The shells were bursting four or five miles away, and the guns must have been as many more distant. But in that upland pocket of plain in the frosty night they sounded most intimately near. They kept up their solemn litany, with a minute's interval between each - no rafale which rumbles like a drum, but the steady persistence of artillery exactly ranged on a target.
- 1916, John Buchan, "Greenmantle"
- Then, as if a spring had been loosed, the world suddenly leaped to a hideous life. With a growl the guns opened round all the horizon. They were especially fierce to the south, where a rafale beat as I had never heard it before. The one glance I cast behind me showed the gap in the hills choked with fumes and dust.
- 1903, Andrew Hero Jr., "Opening & Conduct of Fire", Antiaircraft Journal, vol. 20, page 47
Anagrams
- aflare
French
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Possibly related to Italian raffica influenced by affaler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a.fal/
Noun
rafale f (plural rafales)
- (meteorology) gust (strong, abrupt rush of wind)
- Synonym: bourrasque
- (meteorology) sudden shower, flurry
- (by extension, military) burst (series of shots fired from an automatic firearm)
Derived terms
- microrafale
Further reading
- “rafale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- Rafale on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
References
Anagrams
- érafla
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
rafale f (plural rafales)
- (Jersey) gust (of wind)
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raffle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æfl?/
- Rhymes: -æf?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English rafle, from Old French rafle, raffle (“dice game", also "plundering”), from rafler (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), from Frankish *raffol?n, from Proto-Germanic *hrap?n?, *hr?p?n? (“to scratch, touch, pluck out, snatch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreb(h)-, *(s)kerb(h)- (“to turn, bend, shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Middle Dutch raffel (“dice game”), German raffen (“to snatch away, sweep off”), Old English hreppan (“to touch, treat, attack”).
Noun
raffle (plural raffles)
- A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
- He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
- (obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)
Derived terms
- meat raffle
Translations
Verb
raffle (third-person singular simple present raffles, present participle raffling, simple past and past participle raffled)
- (transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
- They raffled off four gift baskets.
- (intransitive) To participate in a raffle.
- to raffle for a watch
Translations
Etymology 2
See raff.
Noun
raffle (uncountable)
- refuse; rubbish
Anagrams
- farfel, laffer
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