v. dial. [app. onomatopœic: cf. TIFFLE v.2]

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  1.  trans. To put into disorder, ruffle, rumple; to entangle, ravel; = TIFFLE v.2

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1777.  Horæ Subsecivæ, 431 (E.D.D.).

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1810.  in Cromek, Rem. Nithsdale Song, 67. An’ what has tuffled yere gowden locks…?

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  2.  To bind up (flax) in loose sheaves.

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1799.  A. Young, Agric. Lincoln, 164. (Flax cultivation) Tuffle it; that is making it in a loose sheaf, open at bottom.

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