rill

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[ ril ]
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noun
  1. a small rivulet or brook.

Origin of rill

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1530–40; <Dutch or Low German; compare Frisian ril

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Other definitions for rill (2 of 2)

rill2

or rille

[ ril ]

nounAstronomy.
  1. any of certain long, narrow, straight or sinuous trenches or valleys observed on the surface of the moon.

Origin of rill

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1885–90; <German Rille;see rill1

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How to use rill in a sentence

  • Others, though, trained on Lange-ian principles, will rill rise and fill the gap.

  • This rill of water fell in graceful drops from the extremities of the long marine grasses, as from the ends of a length of hair.

    Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
  • Other listeners had been attracted by the melody, but we stood in a shadow, near a rill that fell into the mere.

  • O for a grotto frost-lined and rill-riven,Scooped in the rock under cataract vast!

  • She leaves Cornwall at the end of the month and then goes to Florence, where she stays rill Easter or perhaps longer.

    Passing By | Maurice Baring
  • The whole party now proceeded, following the course of the rill, keeping anxious eyes on the regular impressions.

    The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper

British Dictionary definitions for rill

rill

/ (rɪl) /


noun
  1. a brook or stream; rivulet

  2. a small channel or gulley, such as one formed during soil erosion

  1. Also: rille one of many winding cracks on the moon

Origin of rill

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C15: from Low German rille; related to Dutch ril

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