Meaning of raff | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A disorderly heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
   countable, uncountable
3. A three-cornered sail set on a schooner when before the wind.
4. The common rabble or mob; riffraff.
   countable, uncountable
5. A low fellow; a churl.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A raff of errors.”

“Jostling with unemployed labourers of the lowest class, ballast-heavers, coal-whippers, brazen women, ragged children, and the raff and refuse of the river, he makes his way with difficulty along […]”

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