DCHP-2
riffle ((v.)) [< n.] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
ruffle; cause to form into wavelets or ripples.
- 1903 Suddenly you make out the bottom . . . and the big suckers and catfish idling over its riffled sands. . . .
- 1954 As Hazel walked down the crooked hauling-road, her ears caught the slight rushing murmur of the Black Brook, riffling across a stretch of stony bottom.
- 1958 So land-locked and cliff-flanked is the Inlet that the surface waters are rarely riffled by wind and so make a perfect mirror.
- 1903 Suddenly you make out the bottom . . . and the big suckers and catfish idling over its riffled sands. . . .