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Rippling definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RIP'PLING, ppr. Fretting on the surface.
RIP'PLING, n.
1. The ripple dashing on the shore, or the noise of it.
2. The act or method of cleaning flax; a hatcheling.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ripple Rip"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rippling.] [Cf. Rimple, Rumple.] 1. 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. 2. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.