- a variation of runnel.
runlet
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of runlet
C14: from Old French rondelet roundlet
Example Sentences
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Then there were two runlets of salt pork, containing about ninety pounds each, and in the centre of each runlet were two hams.
From Ungava by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
He had landed in a fringe of small trees by a little runlet, and now, under this cover, he moved irresolutely forward.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
The shepherds jeered; those who had backed the victor were sponging his wounds beside a runlet of water which was close at hand; those who had lost were flinging stones on the vanquished.
From The Waters of Edera by Ouida
Sound for me the dream-song of the runlet, as it whispers and babbles over its pebbly bed and between its moss-draped banks in the silver starlight.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
Trying first the casks, which she believed to be filled with oil, she found them full of seawater, save that there was in each maybe a runlet of oil at the top near the bunghole.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
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