streamlet

[ streem-lit ]

noun

1. a small stream; rivulet.

Word History and Origins

Origin of streamlet¹

First recorded in 1545–55; stream + -let

Example Sentences

The mighty rushing torrent is the fashion, but who can do the wimpling, dimpling streamlet?

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By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert.

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As I watched, a silvery streamlet broke away and came running down the wheel track.

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Here on our right hand a streamlet is falling from the giddy height of a thousand feet above us.

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The bough could not speak for the same reason that the oak could not; but it bent down towards the streamlet.

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