streamlet

[ streem-lit ]
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noun
  1. a small stream; rivulet.

Origin of streamlet

1
First recorded in 1545–55; stream + -let

Words Nearby streamlet

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How to use streamlet in a sentence

  • The mighty rushing torrent is the fashion, but who can do the wimpling, dimpling streamlet?

  • By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert.

    The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
  • As I watched, a silvery streamlet broke away and came running down the wheel track.

    Roof and Meadow | Dallas Lore Sharp
  • Here on our right hand a streamlet is falling from the giddy height of a thousand feet above us.

    Letters from Switzerland | Samuel Irenus Prime
  • The bough could not speak for the same reason that the oak could not; but it bent down towards the streamlet.

    Wood Magic | Richard Jefferies