ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Brooklet

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Brooklet is a noun meaning A little brook.

Meaning

A little brook.

Example Sentences

Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges;[…] rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to humble brooklets; […]
There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rill, brookside, brook, burnie, brookie, beachlet.

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