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Rill

//ɹɪl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.

    "[N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he"

  2. 2
    a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion) wordnet
  3. 3
    Alternative form of rille. alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    a small stream wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.

    "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;"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

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