Middle English

Verb

wimplen (third-person singular simple present wimpleth, present participle wimplende, simple past and past participle wimpled)

1. to cover with a wimple or veil, to veil; to conceal, hide

   With fayre honyed wordes heretykes and mis-meninge people skleren and wimplen their errours. — Testament of Love, Thomas Usk

2. to undergo a religious ceremony of veiling, signifying consecration and seclusion

   Rea entred into relegioun, For to be wympled in that hooli hous Sacred to Vesta ... duryng al hir liff. — Fall of Princes, John Lydgate, c1439

3. to fold, drape in folds

   Take soft lynnen cloth & wrape and wymple it togeder and lay it ouer þe wound — Medical Recipes, c1450

References

• Middle English Dictionary