rill
1a small rivulet or brook.
Origin of rill
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or rille
any of certain long, narrow, straight or sinuous trenches or valleys observed on the surface of the moon.
Origin of rill
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How to use rill in a sentence
Others, though, trained on Lange-ian principles, will rill rise and fill the gap.
This rill of water fell in graceful drops from the extremities of the long marine grasses, as from the ends of a length of hair.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoOther listeners had been attracted by the melody, but we stood in a shadow, near a rill that fell into the mere.
In Accordance with the Evidence | Oliver OnionsO for a grotto frost-lined and rill-riven,Scooped in the rock under cataract vast!
The Book of Humorous Verse | VariousShe leaves Cornwall at the end of the month and then goes to Florence, where she stays rill Easter or perhaps longer.
Passing By | Maurice Baring
The whole party now proceeded, following the course of the rill, keeping anxious eyes on the regular impressions.
The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper
British Dictionary definitions for rill
/ (rɪl) /
a brook or stream; rivulet
a small channel or gulley, such as one formed during soil erosion
Also: rille one of many winding cracks on the moon
Origin of rill
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