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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 raff /ˈræf/
 下層人民;大眾;無賴;廢物

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Raff v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raffed p. pr. & vb. n. Raffing.]  To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep. [Obs.]
    Causes and effects which I thus raff up together.   --Carew.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Raff, n.
 1. A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse. “A raff of errors.”
 2. The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.
 3. A low fellow; a churl.
 Raff merchant, a dealer in lumber and odd refuse. [Prov. Eng.]