Of water, wind, etc.: rippling, swirling. rare after early 17th cent.

Of water: that ripples; flowing in ripples.

Winding, meandering (esp. of streams); also, rippling. Also transferred in poetic use.

That riffles; spec. (of water) moving in riffles, agitated.

Marked or characterized by ripples.

In some senses of the verb. Embroidered; figurative rippled, as water by the wind.

Arranged or falling in folds like a wimple; hence, wrinkled; rippled.