rippling

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

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