brooklet

American  

[brook-lit] / ˈbrʊk lɪt /

noun

1. a small brook.

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brooklet British  

/ ˈbrʊklɪt /

noun

1. a small brook

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Etymology

Origin of brooklet

First recorded in 1805–15; brook ¹ + -let

Example Sentences

I look till the fields and brooklet Swim like a vision by, And a room in a lowly dwelling Lies clear before my eye.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Then—for thy shelter from life's sultrier suns, The oak of strength I set o'er joy that runs With brooklet glee from winds that grieve above.

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

There is a little wood in the upper corner, cool and shadowy, with a brooklet set deep in mosses, trickling through the midst.

From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind

He is still the pleasant companion by river and brooklet, and the cause why, "He that has fishing loved should fish the more, And he should fish who never fish'd before."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various