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/rˈɪpəlɪŋ/ /rˈɪplɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Ripple v. t.

To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.

Hence, to scratch or tear.

Ripple v. t. To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water; to cover with small waves or undulations; as, the breeze rippled the lake.

Ripple v. i. (past & past part. rippled; pres. part. rippling)

To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain.

To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.

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Etymology of 'Rippling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rippling" Quotes from Famous Books

... a faint twinkle in his eyes. "Now if you feel vexed with me, look at the horse," said he. "Anyway, the canoe's ready and the lake all rippling, and I've one ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... how he climbed the verdant hill, Or roved through the forest wild, Or traced to its source the rippling rill, ...

— Canadian Wild Flowers • Helen M. Johnson

... was looking over the rippling field, green-gold in the rosy dawn. He started uncomfortably at ...

— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung

... body, its heavy high wheels, its dusky interior smelling of heated leather and twig-scented, summer-sunned country dust, were romance incarnate. It meant voyaging to her, this coach: strange sights, queer peoples, the sea that she had never seen, the rippling of rivers she had never heard, the smell of pasture-land, of pine forests, of lake-dipped willows, of flowers—valleys full of flowers, like those that bloomed in Mrs. Pemberton's garden, but unlike those enchanted blossoms in not ...

— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson

... by the delightful Charley, she patted the neck of her horse and went up the steps. Her last ride. She was then within a few days of her sixteenth birthday, a slight figure in a riding habit, rather shorter than the average height for her age, in a black bowler hat from under which her fine rippling dark hair cut square at the ends was hanging well down her back. The delightful Charley mounted again to take the two horses round to the mews. Mrs Fyne remaining at the window saw the house door close on Miss de Barral returning ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

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