runlet

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Once't I had a chance to move North He had landed in a fringe of small trees by a little runlet, and now, under this cover, he moved irresolutely forward.

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  1. noun A rivulet.

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  • With that said, you can imagine my excitement when I arrived at the bus stop this afternoon to retrieve my oldest runlet and I saw Runner Neighbor decked out in tech gear. —  Blogtimore, Hon
  • Once't I had a chance to move North He had landed in a fringe of small trees by a little runlet, and now, under this cover, he moved irresolutely forward. —  The Long Roll
  • He did not recognize that this tiniest runlet which fell back at once was of the same element as the tidal wave which had swept over him yesternight But are you aware," said Rachel, dropping her voice a little, "it is beginning to dawn upon me that this evening's gathering is met together for exalted conversation, and perhaps we ought to be practising a little. —  Red Pottage
  • During a walk across the summer fields my foot has sometimes paused at the brink of a silvery runlet, and I have followed it backward in search of the spring. —  Aftermath
  • I had a small runlet or two, as I observed before; but I could never arrive to the capacity of making one by them, though I spent many weeks about it: I could neither put in the heads, nor join the staves so true to one another as to make them hold water; so I gave that also over. —  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes
 

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  1. from run, a stream, + diminutive suf. -let. Cf. runnel.
 

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