1724 L. Slator Instr. Cultivating & Raising Flax & Hemp vii. 36 The unripled Flax is become more hard and stubborn than the ripled Flax was.

1732 T. Prior Slator's Advantages raising Flax 17 Rippled Flax lies better in Water.

1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) II. 322/1 The rippled plants should be tied in sheaves.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 294/2 The rippled stalks are tied in small bundles.

1920 F. Bradbury Flax Preparation x. 89 Each handful of rippled flax is laid down by the rippler at his side, until he has accumulated a sufficient quantity to make an average sized round beet.

2004 G. T. Pott in F. T. Wallenberger & N. E. Weston Natural Fibers viii. 111 The raw material, green rippled flax straw, eliminates the need for traditional dew retting.

a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 315 My dull Pentameters do stand Wrinckled and rippled.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxi. 554 Many a fish..Ascending to the rippled surface.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 176 The rippled surface of the hills of blown sand near Calais.

1883 Science 1 521/1 Rippled cirrus clouds may have a similar origin.

1908 H. G. Wells War in Air v. 154 A rippled veil of still, thin sunlit cirrus.

1950 J. H. Fransden & D. H. Nelson Ice Cream xvii. 177 Rippled ice cream: as the plain vanilla ice cream is drawn from the freezer into the package, specially prepared syrups..are added by means of a special nozzle so as to produce a marbled effect.

1982 A. Fraser Cool Repentance (1986) vi. 75 His figure..could be seen for a long while proceeding out across the rippled sands left by the sea.

2005 New Yorker 13 June 87/2 After a while, there is only rippled water again, and the gonged absence of sound.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Godiva in Poems (new ed.) II. 114 She shook her head, And shower'd the rippled ringlets to her knee.

1920 W. De Morgan Old Man's Youth 365 The droop of rippled hair over those eyes was not a fringe—fringes proper came later.

2000 Northern Echo (Nexis) 1 Jan. 1 A gaggle of young lads in smart polo necks and delicately rippled hair tried to push their way through to the pub.

1903 Jrnl. Hellenic Soc. 23 161 Here out of 56 fragments 6 were incised, and the continued popularity of the rippled ware was shown by the fact that 7 fragments had the rippled surface.

1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters vii. 100 Plain, incised, and rippled ware.

1999 K. Bard Encycl. Archaeol. Anc. Egypt 1010 Ceramics which included sherds like those of the Tarifian as well as the characteristic rippled ware of the Badarian culture.