rill

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪl/

  Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

Wikipedia rill (plural rills)

1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan:

     So twice five miles of fertile ground

     With walls and towers were girdled round:

     And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

     Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

     And here were forests ancient as the hills,

     Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

2. (planetology) Alternative form of rille.

Translations

A very small brook

• French: ruisselet (fr) m
• Russian: ручеёк (ru) (ručejók) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀точић (sh) m

  Roman: pòtočić (sh) m

• Spanish: arroyito (es) m

Verb

rill (third-person singular simple present rills, present participle rilling, simple past and past participle rilled)

1. To run a small stream.

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