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RAFFLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAFFLE , a See also:

special See also:kind of lottery, in which a particular See also:article is put up as the See also:prize, the winner being See also:drawn for by See also:lot out of the number of those who have paid a fixed sum for See also:admission to the See also:drawing; the See also:total amount realized by the See also:sale of the tickets is supposed to approximate' to the value of the See also:object raffled for. The word appears in See also:English as See also:early as See also:Chaucer (The See also:Parson's See also:Tale) where it is used in its See also:original sense of a See also:game of See also:dice, the winner being that one who threw three dice all alike, or, next, the highest pair. The Fr. mile. Med. See also:Lat. raffla, was also used in the sense of a " sweeping-off " of the stakes in a game; it has been connected with Ger. raffen, to carry off.

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