Naut. and dial. Also 6 Sc. lippir. [Belongs to LIPPER v.1] A rippling, slight ruffling of the surface of the sea. Often collect. Also wind-lipper. See also quot. 1867.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. ix. 119. Lyk as the see changis fyrst his hew In quhyt lippiris by the wyndis blast.
1789. Trans. Soc. Arts, II. 221. A deal of sea and wind lipper.
1823. J. F. Cooper, Pioneers, xv. (1869), 67/1. ‘As to the seas, they runs more in lippers in the Bay of Biscay.’
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v., There’s no great sets o’ wind, but a great deal of lipper on.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Lipper, a sea which washes over the weather chess-tree, perhaps leaper. Also, the spray from small waves breaking against a ship’s bows.
1882. Good Cheer, 33. A light breeze was blowing, making what sailors call a lipper on the surface of the water.
1890. Pall Mall Gaz., 7 July, 6/2. The approaching torpedo, so clearly identifiable by … the lipper of its ‘wake.’
