Princeton's WordNet

1. raffle(verb)

   a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

2. raffle, raffle off(verb)

   dispose of in a lottery

   "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"

Wiktionary

1. raffle(Noun)

   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.

2. raffle(Verb)

   To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.

   They raffled off four gift baskets.

Origin: From rafle, from rafle, raffle, from rafler, of origin, from Old *, from hrapōnan, from (s)kreb(h)-, from (s)ker-. Cognate with raffel, raffen, hreppan.

Webster Dictionary

1. Raffle

   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

2. Raffle

   a game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes

3. Raffle(verb)

   to engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch

4. Raffle(verb)

   to dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse

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