ringleting

Verb

ringlet (third-person singular simple present ringlets, present participle ringleting, simple past and past participle ringleted)

1. (transitive) To form into ringlets.
   • "It's very becoming!" said Pollie coaxingly, taking his curly head, which she had been brushing and ringleting for the last half hour, all damp, into her arms.1877, Ella Farman, Good-for-nothing Polly, page 163
2. (transitive) To surround or encircle like a ringlet.
   • I think now that if it had gripped me with those suckers, I would have gone out into the mist too. But it didn't. It grabbed Norm. And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle. Now he was being pulled away from me.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press

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