Definitions
run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
Word origin
From Middle English triklen, likely a rebracketing (e.g. teres strikled > teerys trikled (“tears trickled”)) of Middle English striklen (“to trickle”), equivalent to strike + -le.
Used in a sentence
“The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.”
“The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.”
“The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Flow slowly”7 letters
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