rill

rill also rille (r

1. A small brook; a rivulet.

2. A long narrow straight valley on the moon's surface.

[Low German rille or Dutch ril, running stream; see rei- in Indo-European roots.]

rill [rɪl]

1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a brook or stream; rivulet

2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a small channel or gulley, such as one formed during soil erosion

3. (Astronomy) Also rille one of many winding cracks on the moon

[from Low German rille; related to Dutch ril]

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Noun	1.	rill - a small stream rivulet, runnel, streamlet, run stream, watercourse - a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
	2.	rill - a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion) channel - a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel"

Translations

rill [rɪl] N (= liter) → arroyo m, riachuelo m

rill

n (poet) → Bächlein nt

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At length Uncas, whose activity had enabled him to achieve his portion of the task the soonest, raked the earth across the turbid little rill which ran from the spring, and diverted its course into another channel.

The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

Hence he determined to abandon himself to the stream of feeling, and perhaps was surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

I felt assured now of what it was, and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity.

The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context

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