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riffler

(ˈrɪflə)
n
(Tools) a file with a curved face for filing concave surfaces
[C18: from French rifloir, from rifler to scratch]
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Riffler, Michael, GeoVille Information Systems, Innsbruck, Austria, and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
(140.) Here is a riffler and slightly more technical explanation of my methodological choice.
For highly polydisperse materials, the use of a Burt sampler (the slurry equivalent of a spinning riffler for powders) may be required, but sedimentation-induced bias could complicate analysis.
I realized I had experienced real tugs between my love of the craft and what it stood for and my yearning for riffler recognition of human rights, women's rights in particular.
In Austria, a German back-country skier was burried by an avalanche after he tried to cut short his trek near the Hoher Riffler peak in Tyrol because of bad weather.
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How to "clean out" checkering with a single-line checkering tool, a riffler and a veiner are some good techniques that may be included in this process.
Using a riffler, small samples from the bags representing each batch were conditioned, and two subsamples were fired in a Parr 6100 calorimeter to determine the energy values at each MC.
rain legislation itself because regulators had a riffler understanding