Rill

Quick meaning: Rill is a noun meaning A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.

Meaning

A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.

More Meanings

1. (planetology) Alternative form of rille.
2. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.

Example Sentences

[N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he

Alladad Khan was panting hard, soaked in sweat, and his rolled-up sleeve was all blood, blood rilling down his arm.

"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;

Word Forms

• rills
• rilling
• rilled

Synonyms for rill

Depending on context, synonyms include run, rivulet, runnel, streamlet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rivulet, runnel, streamlet, run, brooklet, purling.

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