Definitions
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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01“Tiny stream”4 letters
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