Dictionary entry

Ripler

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Rip″ler (?), Rip″per (?), } n. [Cf. Rip a basket, or Riparian.] (O.E. Law) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.

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Robbing a ripper of his fish. Beau. & Fl.