rippler

[rip-ler]

noun

1. a person who ripples ripple flax, hemp, etc.

2. an instrument for rippling; ripple; ripple.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rippler¹

First recorded in 1735–45; ripple ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The best rippler, or apparatus for separating the seed capsules from the branches, consists of a kind of comb having, set in a wooden frame, iron teeth made of round-rod iron 3⁄16ths of an inch asunder at the bottom, and half an inch at the top, and 18 in. long, to allow a sufficient spring, and save much breaking of flax.

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"Evil Briand" These comments, and others like them, sizzled from the sanctums of foremost Berlin editors, last week?even from such editors as urbane Georg Bernhard* and mild Henrich Rippler.

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