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Ripple   /rˈɪpəl/   Listen
noun
Ripple  n.  An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.


Ripple  n.  
1.
The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves.
2.
A little wave or undulation; a sound such as is made by little waves; as, a ripple of laughter.
Ripple grass. (Bot.) See Ribwort.
Ripple marks, a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum.


verb
Ripple  v. t.  
1.
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
2.
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)  
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.





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"Ripple" Quotes from Famous Books



... especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa's throat ripple and bulge. ...
— The Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling
... covers it at flood-tides, beating up against the foot of the granite rocks and the granite walls of the ramparts. But at neap tides and eaux mortes, as the French say, there is nothing but a desert of brown, bare sand, with ripple-marks lying across it, and with shallow, ankle-deep pools of salt water here and there. Afar off on the western sky-line a silver fringe of foam, glistening in the sunshine, marks the distant boundary to which the sea has retreated. On every other side of the horizon rises a belt ...
— Stories By English Authors: France • Various
... island, in the third summer of its yellow green, that we built our watch-fire; not in the thicket of dancing willow wands, but on the level terrace of fine sand which had been added that spring; a little new bit of world, beautifully ridged with ripple marks, and strewn with the tiny skeletons of turtles and fish, all as white and dry as if they had been expertly cured. We had been careful not to mar the freshness of the place, although we often swam out to it on summer evenings and lay on the ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... the shade and turns its head on occasion to look around the corner of a hill, which will seek out obscure villages even though it requires a zigzag course up a hillside, which follows a river for the very love of its company and humors its windings, which trots alongside and listens to its ripple and then crosses, sans bridge, like a schoolboy, with its toes in the water. I love a road which goes with the easy, rolling gait of a sailor ashore. It has no thought of time and it accepts all the vagaries of your laziness. I love a road which weaves ...
— Journeys to Bagdad • Charles S. Brooks
... with a ripple of laughter. "Oh a mother! I had a lovely, lovely mother once but she's gone away—to Heaven. And is ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott


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