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(transitive) To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. / (transitive, falconry) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.

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Source Word

ruff

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɹʌf/

Verb

transitive rare obsolete intransitive

(transitive) To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. / (transitive, falconry) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.

Japanese Meaning

布や衣服などを、襟飾り状（ruff）に整形・装飾する / （鷹狩りの用語として）猛禽類が、獲物をしっかり捕らえることなく打つ

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Please ruff the collar before sewing it into place.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

縫い付ける前に襟を襞襟の形に整えてください。

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(transitive) To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.

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(transitive, falconry) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.

Instantly the keen-eyed hawk "stooped," or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called "rifling," or "ruffing" it.

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(rare, transitive) To ruffle; to disorder.

Thenceforth the fether in her lofty creſt, / Ruffed of loue, gan lowly to auaile, / And her prowd portaunce, and her princely geſt, / VVith which ſhe earſt tryumphed, now did quaile: […]

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