springlet

[ spring-lit ]

noun

1. a small spring of water.

springlet

/ ˈsprɪŋlɪt /

noun

1. a small spring; brooklet or rill

Word History and Origins

Origin of springlet¹

First recorded in 1740–50; spring + -let

Example Sentences

She gave him a draught freshly drawn from the springlet,— O Tunbridge, thy waters are bitter, alas!

From Project Gutenberg

Here I have killed them when there was ice thicker than a dollar on all the waters round about, and when you might see a thin and smoke-like mist boiling up from each springlet.

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On thy wedding-day, send hither thy three largest waggons, and to each a team of four strong horses, for I shall load them heavily—and hear'st, Godson Klaus? they shall drive nice and slowly round about the springlet, and then away again at a good gallop back to thy farm-yard.

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Every little rill and springlet ran like a mill-tail, while the main stream rushed and roared, foaming, leaping, lashing, its volume increased fifty-fold.

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I remember the mossy-rimmed springlet, That gushed in the shade of the oaks, And how the white buds of the mistletoe, Fell down at the woodman’s strokes, On the morning when cruel Sir Spencer Came down with his haughty train, To uproot the old kings of the greenwood That shadowed his golden grain.

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