Raffling, playing for stakes, betting, buying lottery tickets, speculation in which there is no real transfer of goods, but mere winning or losing on the fluctuations of the market, are all forms of gambling.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
There was plain and brazen Raffling for dreadful lamps and patent rockers and dolls which did not look fit to be owned by nice little girl-mothers, and all for the church organ, the minister's salary and such like.
"An Alabaster Box"
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley
I've often taken as much as a pound's worth of tickets for a five-pound note that some priest was Raffling in aid of a new chapel.
"Hyacinth 1906"
George A. Birmingham