Bible Dictionaries
Raffle

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

(2):

(v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

(3):

(v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

(4):

(v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; - often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

(5):

(v.) Refuse; rubbish; raff.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Raffle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/raffle.html. 1828.