Rivulet
['rɪvjʊlɪt] or ['rɪvjələt]
Definition
(n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
Edited by Clio
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Brook, streamlet, runnel, rill, runlet, BURN, small stream.
Inputed by Bruno
Definition
n. a small stream brook: a geometrid moth.—adj. Riv′ūlose (bot.) marked with irregular lines.
Editor: Madge
Examples
- Around the exterior wall was a deep moat, supplied with water from a neighbouring rivulet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the soft mud on the bank of a tiny rivulet he found footprints such as he alone in all the jungle had ever made, but much larger than his. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is only the sound of the wind rising, he remarked, and the rivulet a little swollen, rushing down the hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Winifred was playing with a little rivulet of water, absorbedly as if nothing had been said. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It had ceased to rain, but the earth was sodden, and the pools and rivulets were full. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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