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rill

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"Tiny stream"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɹɪl/Part of speech nounSorted illrStarts with REnds with L1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)

Word origin

From or akin to West Frisian ril (“rill; a narrow channel”), Dutch ril (“rill; gully; trench; watercourse”), German Low German Rille, Rill (“a small channel; brook; furrow”), German Rille (“a groove; furrow”).

Used in a sentence

  • [N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he
  • "Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."
  • And fainter, finer, trickle far To where the listening uplands are; To pause—then from his gurgling bill Let the warbled sweetness rill, And down the welkin, gushing free, Hark the molten melody;

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