In 3 wimlunge. [f. WIMPLE v. + -ING1.]

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  † 1.  The wearing of a wimple. Obs.

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c. 1240.  Ancr. R., 420 (MS. C). Ancren, sume sungið in hare wimlunge na lesse þene lefdi.

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  2.  The winding or meandering of a stream; also, rippling.

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1729.  Ramsay, 2nd Answ. Somerville, 30. Its wimplings [Wks. 1851, III. 94 whimplings] led by Nature’s hand.

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1863.  Le Fanu, House by Churchy., lxxix. Those … pleasant dimples, like the wimpling of a well.

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1893.  Jos. Thomson, in Biogr. (1896), 288. The wimpling of the burns over stony beds.

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