Raffle

Noun

 * 1) A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
 * He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.

Derived terms

 * meat raffle

Verb

 * 1) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
 * They raffled off four gift baskets.

Thesaurus
bingo, call, cast lots, class lottery, cut lots, cut the cards, draft lottery, draw, draw lots, draw straws, drawing, gamble, game, grab bag, interest lottery, keno, lot, lottery, lotto, match coins, number lottery, numbers pool, play, play at dice, play the ponies, raffle off, shoot craps, speculate, sport, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, tombola, tontine, toss

Etymology
From rafle:, from  rafle:, raffle:, from rafler:, of  origin, from Old  *undefined:, from, from , from. Cognate with raffel:,  raffen:,  hreppan:.

Noun

 * French:
 * Russian: лотерея


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * French: mettre en tombola


 * Spanish: