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

By the time they had shrugged off their coats, the glacier streamlet that was still covered by a thin layer of ice in the morning had turned into a bubbling stream of melting water.

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Ricks nudges the bow of the boat into the mouth of a narrow streamlet shooting off the main creek.

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I know the trees they passed under, the streamlets they gathered water from.

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We could distinguish no streamlet, no jetty, and all distances seemed one.

From Literature

Water collected in puddles and ran in streamlets in the nooks and crannies of the ancient, creaking building.

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