different between streamlet vs rill

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Marlettes

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)

1. 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.

2. (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)

1. 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;

Irish

Etymology

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Verb

rill (present analytic rilleann, future analytic rillfidh, verbal noun rilleadh, past participle rillte)

1. (transitive) riddle, sieve, sift
2. (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.