runlet
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of runlet
C14: from Old French rondelet roundlet
Example Sentences
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She came to know by heart every path through the park--except that which led to the Great House; she discovered where the foxgloves clustered, where the meadow-sweet fringed the runlet, where the rare bog-bean warned the traveller to look to his footing.
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Many a runlet of Canary has been "passed" here that never paid duty to king or Congress.
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He carried him carefully to the partial shelter of a rock, and propped him up, and gave him water from a runlet close by.
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A runlet of sparkling water babbled down a stone channel in the middle of the street.
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The runlet of brandy was a loving runlet, and floated after us out of pure pity.
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