ruffs
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noun
- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- Senses relating to animals.
- A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
verb
- To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
- Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
- To ruffle; to disorder.
- Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
noun
- Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
- A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.
noun
- An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
- A game similar to whist and its predecessor.
verb
- To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
- Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
noun
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
verb
- To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
- Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
noun
- Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.
- Other species in the same genus.
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