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Wimple v. t. (past & past part. wimpled; pres. part. wimpling)

To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink. "She sat ywympled well." "This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy."

To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.

To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.

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Etymology of 'Wimple'

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"Wimple" Quotes from Famous Books

... calculated on dropping anchor in the channel by sundown, at the farthest. And so we should, but the wind hauled, and we couldn't lay our course. Tacking is slow work, especially all in sight of home. About ten o'clock in the evening we made Wimple's Creek. Then we had the tide in our favor, and so drifted into the channel. Our bounty wasn't quite out, or we should have gone straight in to the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... man died on the 18th of September, 1721, at Wimple in Cambridgshire, the seat of the earl of Oxford, with whose friendship he had been honoured for some years. The death of so distinguished a person was justly esteemed an irreparable loss to the polite world, ...

— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber

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