Rill

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

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

“So twice five miles of fertile ground / With walls and towers were girdled round: / And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, / Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree; / And here were forests ancient as the hills, / And folding sunny spots of greenery.”

“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point⟳, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.”

“"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."”

“Light⟳ grew, and lo! the Company passed through another gateway, high-arched and broad, and a rill ran out beside them; and beyond, going steeply down, was a road between sheer cliffs, knife-edged against the sky far above.”

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