different between brook vs runnel

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: br??k, IPA^(key): /b??k/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /b?u?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English br?can (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan? (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to enjoy”). German brauchen is cognate.

Verb

brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)

1. (transitive, formal) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
   • 1966, Garcilaso de la Vega, H. V. Livermore, Karen Spalding, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (Abridged), Hackett Publishing ?ISBN, page 104

     After delivering the reply he ordered the annalists, who have charge of the knots, to take note of it and include it in their tradition. By now the Spaniards, who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians
2. (transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III scene ii^[2]:

     […] How brooks your grace the air, / After your late tossing on the breaking seas?

3. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.

Synonyms

• (use): apply, employ, utilize
• (earn): See also Thesaurus:deserve
• (tolerate): See also Thesaurus:tolerate

Derived terms

• abrook

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English br?c (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kaz (“stream”).

Noun

brook (plural brooks)

1. A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

   • The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
2. (Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
3. (Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• Holcombe Brook
• Rea Brook
• Stamford Brook

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bro(o)ken (“to use, enjoy, digest”), from Old English br?can (“to use, enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kan?. See also brouk.

Verb

tae brook

1. To enjoy; to possess; to have use or owndom of.

English

Alternative forms

• rinel

Etymology

From Middle English runel, rennel, rinel, from Old English rynel (“that which runs; runner; stream”), from Proto-Germanic *runilaz, equivalent to run +? -el. Cognate with Scots rinel, rinnal (“stream; runnel”), Swedish rännel (“runner; runnel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?l/, /???nl/
• Rhymes: -?n?l
• Hyphenation: run?nel

Noun

runnel (plural runnels)

1. A small stream, a rivulet.
   • 1998, A. S. Byatt, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice, Chatto & Windus

     […] great chambers in the rock where all sorts of plants were growing, under windows which had been cut to let in the sun, and glazed to adjust his warmth, and where runnels of water ran between fruit trees and seedlings, pumpkin plants and herbs.

Derived terms

• runnelling, runneling

Translations

Verb

runnel (third-person singular simple present runnels, present participle (UK) runnelling or (US) runneling, simple past and past participle (UK) runnelled or (US) runneled)

1. To create channels for directing the flow of liquid.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     The people who settled here weren’t farmers. They hunted. Yet they built a large amphitheater of mud, a platform carefully runneled to carry liquid—possibly blood.

Anagrams

• lunner