Meaning of brooklet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A little brook.
2. A locality in the Ballina council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

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Examples

“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.”

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