noun
rill
Rill (noun) means a very narrow, shallow stream.
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A very narrow, shallow stream.
""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.""
— Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway (1936)
"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."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (1955)
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Etymology
From, or akin to, West Frisian ril ("rill; a narrow channel"), Dutch ril ("rill; gully; trench; watercourse"), German Low German Rille, Rill ("a small channel; brook; furrow") and German Rille ("a groove; furrow").
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What is the meaning of rill?
"rill" (noun) means a very narrow, shallow stream.
What is another word for rill?
Other words for "rill" include run, streamlet, rivulet, runnel.
