different between streamlet vs brooklet

English

Etymology

From stream +? -let.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st?i?ml?t/

Noun

streamlet (plural streamlets)

1. A small stream.
   • 1637, Philemon Holland (translator), Britain by William Camden, London: George Latham, “Kent,” p. 330,^[1]

     Then the river Medway, branching it selfe into five streamlets, is joyned with as many stone Bridges […]

   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 1, Preface, p. iii,^[2]

     […] the eye, after poring over the unbounded expanse of the ocean, is releaved and delighted by a streamlet and a dell.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 19:

     I wanted to jog in leisurely fashion through the green fields and chestnut avenues, over the rushing bubbling streamlets, to join Sylvie.

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Anagrams

• Marlettes

English

Etymology

From brook +? -let.

Noun

brooklet (plural brooklets)

1. A little brook.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.

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