brooklet

American  

[brook-lit] / ˈbrʊk lɪt /

noun

1. a small brook.

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brooklet British  

/ ˈbrʊklɪt /

noun

1. a small brook

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Etymology

Origin of brooklet

First recorded in 1805–15; brook ¹ + -let

Example Sentences

Never a word the brooklet spoke; Bobolink was witness then.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker

Thus equipped, the next morning at eight o'clock we rolled out and made about twenty miles; we camped on a plateau covered with grass and by a brooklet of pure, cold spring water.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange

Clear was the heaven and blue, and May, with her cap crowned with roses, Stood in her holiday dress in the fields, and the wind and the brooklet Murmured gladness and peace, God's-peace!

From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

When the girls reached the wood with its cool, damp shade, moss-grown paths, and running brooklet, they set to work with renewed vigor to hunt for specimens.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.