runlet

British  

/ ˈrʌnlɪt /

noun

1. archaic a cask for wine, beer, etc

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Etymology

Origin of runlet

C14: from Old French rondelet _roundlet

Example Sentences

Suppose," said Violet, looking off across the runlet sparkling, gurgling like an infant across the bar, "it was him you saw when you looked in there, instead of the others.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

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

Baldassarre, looking up blankly from the search in the runlet that brought him nothing, had seen a white object coming along the broader stream.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Then to a runlet forth he went, And brought a wallet from the bent, And bade me to the meal, intent   I should not quit his neighborhood.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

This Kingussie Creek was sometimes a swift, dangerous stream, but oftener it was a mere runlet with deep water-holes carved here and there in the yielding shale.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill