rill
pronunciation
How to pronounce rill in British English:
UK [rɪl]
How to pronounce rill in American English:
US [rɪl]
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- Noun:
- a small stream
- a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)
Word Origin
- rill (n.)
- "small brook, rivulet," 1530s, from or related to Dutch and Frisian ril, Low German rille "groove, furrow, running stream," probably from Proto-Germanic *ril- (cognates: Old English rið, riþe "brook, stream," which survives only in dialects), a diminutive form from PIE root *reie- "to run, flow" (see Rhine).
Example
- 1. Give a warm appoint for every rill and every mountain .
- 2. The water in this rill is undrinkable .
- 3. But be the best little scrub by the side of the rill .
- 4. From west to east streams down the tumbling rill .
- 5. Father said I could swim in the rill .