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Webster 1828 Edition


Rippling

RIP'PLING

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ppr.
Fretting on the surface.

RIP'PLING

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Noun.
1.
The ripple dashing on the shore, or the noise of it.
2.
The act or method of cleaning flax; a hatcheling.

Definition 2024


rippling

rippling

English

Verb

rippling

  1. present participle of ripple

Adjective

rippling (not comparable)

  1. Moving in a chaotic, undulating fashion, as in a flow of water or a flag blowing in the wind.

Noun

rippling (plural ripplings)

  1. A motion or sound that ripples.
    • 2007 October 29, Alastair Macaulay, “An Ephemeral Portrait of an Artist in a Hall of Mirrors”, in New York Times:
      And if there is a serious connection between the fragmented Close close-up portraits that are among the backdrops and the sometimes Chopin-like, thinly pretty ripplings of Mr. Glass's music, Mr. Elo's choreography does not point them out on a first viewing.