The meaning of Ruffing

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different suit.

Usage examples:

Declarer ruffed and then led a heart

noun

A projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of elizabethan and jacobean costume.

Usage examples:

An elizabethan ruff

noun

A projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal.

Usage examples:

A ruff of long pointed feathers

noun

A pigeon of a domestic breed with a ruff of feathers on its neck.

noun

A north eurasian wading bird, the male of which has a large variously coloured ruff and ear tufts in the breeding season, used in display.

Usage examples:

Elsewhere, we came across storks, ruffs and egrets, and herons of all descriptions.

noun

An edible marine fish of australian inshore waters that is related to the australian salmon.

noun

An act of ruffing or opportunity to ruff.

Usage examples:

He gave his partner a spade ruff

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One of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a single note preceded by either two grace notes played with the other stick (double-stroke ruff or drag) or three grace notes played with alternating sticks (four-stroke ruff).

Usage examples:

One passage suggests the right hand is playing open and closed high hat notes while simultaneously …