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riffle
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riffle
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a. a rapid in a stream
b. a rocky shoal causing a rapid
c. a ripple on water

riffle [′rif·əl]
(hydrology)
A shallows across a stream bed over which water flows swiftly and is broken into waves by submerged obstructions.
Shallow water flowing over a riffle.


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But it wasn't until the early 1990s, when Zick was riffling through a record store, that this former employee of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights first encountered classical musicians of color.
Witness Andre "Dray" Dollar, who is riffling through our January 2006 issue, no doubt trying to learn the intricacies of the 4-3 as a High School Defense or Boots, Shovels, and Reverses: Complements of the Counter Trey.
Eagerly riffling through the pages, Andrews realized that he was holding the notebook in which Ramanujan had written his final mathematical ideas in the last months of his life, more than half-a-century ago.
 
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