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streamlet

[ streem-lit ]

/ ˈstrim lɪt /

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noun

a small stream; rivulet.

RELATED WORDS

rill, run, creek, burn, rivulet, watercourse, branch, river, beck, runnel, brook, trench, valley, channel, stream, bourn, tributary, ditch, crick, race

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Origin of streamlet

First recorded in 1545–55; stream + -let

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Examples from the Web for streamlet

The stillness of things was disturbed by a bird coming to the streamlet to drink.
A Pair of Blue Eyes|Thomas Hardy
At ten o'clock the infantry that had been among the bushes in front of the battery and along the Kamenka streamlet retreated.
War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy
Men do not ask when they drink of a streamlet high up on the hills, "Is this going to be a great river?"
The Book of Isaiah, Volume I (of 2)|George Adam Smith
It is the streamlet of the church, the pious pavement, the miserable suburb of worship.
En Route|J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

The water in the one streamlet flowed to the Atlantic, that in its fellow to the Pacific.
Lady Merton, Colonist|Mrs. Humphry Ward