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rill
English
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”), German Rille (“a groove; furrow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
rill (plural rills)
- A very small brook; a streamlet.
- 1751 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
- ...nor yet beside the rill,
- Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he
- 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.
- 1751 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
- (planetology) Alternative form of rille.
Derived terms
- rillet
Translations
Verb
rill (third-person singular simple present rills, present participle rilling, simple past and past participle rilled)
- To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
- 1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:
- And fainter, finer, trickle far
- To where the listening uplands are;
- To pause—then from his gurgling bill
- Let the warbled sweetness rill,
- And down the welkin, gushing free,
- Hark the molten melody;
- 1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:
Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
rill (present analytic rilleann, future analytic rillfidh, verbal noun rilleadh, past participle rillte)
- (transitive) riddle, sieve, sift
- (transitive) pour (as from sieve)
Conjugation
Derived terms
- rilleán m (“riddle, coarse sieve”)
Further reading
- "rill" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “rillim” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “rill” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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rillet
English
Alternative forms
- ryllet [16th century]
Etymology
rill (“small stream”, “brook”, “rivulet”) + either -et or -let
Pronunciation
- enPR: r??l?t, IPA(key): /???l?t/
Noun
rillet (plural rillets)
- A little rill.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights
- From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical.
- 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
- First, a pearly white, unrelieved, then a trace of faint darkness here and there, and finally, the fine neatly printed equations in black, with an occasional red hairline that wavered through the darker forest like a staggering rillet.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights
Anagrams
- Tiller, tiller
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