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- adjective Shallow and fast-flowing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The trout were lying toward the head of the long, riffly pool feeding on a hatch of dark midges.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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It was almost the same deal as the day before, with the bigger trout holding near the riffly head of the run and a few smaller ones down in the slower tail.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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The trout were lying toward the head of the long, riffly pool feeding on a hatch of dark midges.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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It was almost the same deal as the day before, with the bigger trout holding near the riffly head of the run and a few smaller ones down in the slower tail.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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The trout were lying toward the head of the long, riffly pool feeding on a hatch of dark midges.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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The trout were lying toward the head of the long, riffly pool feeding on a hatch of dark midges.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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July 25th, 2008 at 4:05 pm is there anyway to remove particular riffly comments form my blog.
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It was almost the same deal as the day before, with the bigger trout holding near the riffly head of the run and a few smaller ones down in the slower tail.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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It was almost the same deal as the day before, with the bigger trout holding near the riffly head of the run and a few smaller ones down in the slower tail.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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Prior to settlers and livestock, "there was a lot more slow-flowing water and less of the classic pooly, riffly streams we see now," says Michael Pollock, a Seattle-based ecosystems analyst for the federal NOAA Fisheries Service.
bilby commented on the word riffly
Feels like a Lewis Carroll madeupical.
August 19, 2021
ruzuzu commented on the word riffly
I love it when my fufluns have grape riffles.
August 19, 2021