The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dumple \Dum"ple\, v. t. [See Dumpling.] To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
He was a little man, dumpled up together.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another.
Usage examples of "dumple".
Our niang would put a one-fen coin into a dumpling and whoever found it was destined to have luck throughout the year.
She opened the packet from Johnny Long and sniffed again to make certain that whatever the white paper contained would meld with the flavor of the apples and make it truly an apple dumpling to remember.
I imagined innumerable fields devoted to a monoculture of dumpling bushes.
Roman Emperor, or even the whole lot, lay in his lavish silvery pram in the kitchen, looking remarkably like a very soft, very large apple dumpling that has been slightly over-boiled.
But when it comes to you, little dumpling, she is as overprotective as a mother.
Next ask that dumpled hag, stood snuffling by, With her three frowsy blowsy brats o’ babes, The scum o’ the kennel, cream o’ the filth-heap - Faugh!