riffled Definition

tr & intr
1. To flick or leaf through (the pages of a book, a pile of papers, etc) rapidly, especially in a casual search for something.

Form: riffle through something (often)
2. To shuffle (playing-cards) by dividing the pack into two equal piles, bending the cards back slightly and controlling the fall of the corners of the cards with the thumbs, so that cards from each pile fall more or less alternately and overlap each other.
3. To make or form a ripple on the surface of water.

1a. The action of riffling, eg cards;
1b. The sound made by this.
(N Amer)
2. A section of a stream or river where shallow water flows swiftly over a rough rocky surface.
(N Amer)
3. A ripple or patch of ripples on the surface of water.
4. mining.
In eg gold-washing: a groove or slat in a sluice to catch free particles of ore.