▪ I. rimple, n. Now dial.
(ˈrɪmp(ə)l)
Also 5 rymple, rympyl.
[Corresponds in sense to (M)Du. and (M)LG. rimpel, but may rather represent an OE. ablaut-variant *hrympel (cf. the gloss ‘Rugis, hrypellum’ in Wr.-Wülcker 531, where perhaps m should be supplied). See also rumple n. and wrimple n.
The simpler form rimpe occurs in MDu. and MLG., together with the vb. rimpen, = OE. *hrimpan (pa. pple. ᵹehrumpen), OHG. rimfan (pa. pple. girumpfan), G. rimpfen (now rūmpfen).]
1. A wrinkle.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 434/1 Rympyl, or rymple (or wrynkyl), ruga, rugadia. 1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 297 Ner rymples aspyin in hyr no man myht. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 22 The great Bistorte hath long leaues..wrinkled or drawen into rimples. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 18/2 The skinne beinge cutt accordinge to the rimples, might chaunce to fall on the eyes. 1682 Phil. Collections No. 5. 154 A single Muscular string, wherein I have often seen certain rings or circular rimples. Ibid., When the Muscle is extended, these Muscular strings are without rimples. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Rimple, a wrinkle. |
2. (See quot.)
| 1877 Holderness Gloss., Rimple, (1) a ripple on water; (2) the sound produced by it. |
▪ II. rimple, v. rare.
(ˈrɪmp(ə)l)
[f. rimple n., or back-formation from rimpled a. Cf. rimpling vbl. n. and (M)Du. rimpelen.]
trans. To wrinkle, pucker; to ripple.
| 1755 Johnson, To Rimple, to pucker; to contract into corrugations. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. I. 113 Glad Echo..Curls her deep wells, and rimples all her lakes. 1791 Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest (1820) III. 96 The air [was] so still that it scarcely..rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below. |