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RAFFv.t.

[Heb.]

To sweep; to snatch, draw or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep. Obs.

Their causes and effects I thus raff up together.

RAFFn.

1. The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob. This is used chiefly in the compound or duplicate, riff-raff.

2. A promiscuous heap or collection; a jumble.