Meaning of burnlet | Babel Free

Definitions

A small burn (stream).

Examples

“[…] streams often mere burnlets, where a 3-lb. fish⟳ has barely room to turn⟳ [around].”

“Loch Katrine was "fed by thousands of tricling rills, meandering burnlets, and scintillant cascades.'" Although it was surrounded by '"thirty-thousand acres of untamed'" territory, the loch was only thirty miles northwest of the swarming and industrializing city of Glasgow.”

“[...] sky-reflecting pools like⟳ tarnished silver buckles, and winding burnlets that wandered down from the hills to join⟳ the broad loop of the river that flowed out through Mhoin Mhor to the sea.”

“[...] water-meadows, of great outcropping rocks as big as houses, and long sweeping grassy aprons scored by burnlets innumerable.”

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