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Webster 1828 Edition


Wrinkling

WRINKLING

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Shrinking; contracting into furrows and ridges.

Definition 2024


wrinkling

wrinkling

English

Verb

wrinkling

  1. present participle of wrinkle

Noun

wrinkling (plural wrinklings)

  1. A pattern of wrinkles.
    • 1849, Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland (volume 3, page 251)
      The character of these wrinklings, when seen on the flat of the beds, forbids the idea that they are due to end on compression []