ripplet
(ˈrɪplɪt)
Also riplet.
[f. ripple n.3 + -et1.]
A small ripple; a wavelet.
| 1820 Shelley Orpheus in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1904) 699 Each riplet makes A many-sided mirror for the sun. 1846 in Worcester. 1866 Neale Sequences & Hymns 144 While to her quays and wharves..Creep up the ripplets. 1880 Time II. 12 The broad, calm, and limpid river, with its riplets and currents. |