n.

1. （尤指十六、七世紀的）襞襟；襞襟狀物
2. 鳥獸頸部的環狀毛
3. 毛領鴿；流蘇鷸
4. 【機】軸環

n.

1. a projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean costume.
2. a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal.
3. a pigeon of a domestic breed with a ruff of feathers.
4. (pl. same or ruffs)
   a North Eurasian wading bird, the male of which has a large ruff and ear tufts in the breeding season. [Philomachus pugnax; the female is called a reeve.]

n.

1. (also tommy ruff) an edible marine fish of Australian inshore waters. [Arripis georgianus.]
2. variant spelling of ruffe.

v.

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

n.

an act of ruffing or opportunity to ruff.

n.

Music  one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a single note preceded by either two grace notes played with the other stick or three grace notes played with alternating sticks.