runnel

• The elf landed more heavily, but there was some give in the runnel, and no bones were broken. —  Golem in the Gears
• According to a advanced study from the walnut runnel, Calif. —  xml's Blinklist.com
• Röthemeyer and his colleagues had discovered that in the Ice Age a runnel was gouged through the stone covering the salt making the stone "unable to hold back contaminations from the biosphere over time". —  de.indymedia.org newswire
• Let him take up the most trivial subject, and it will lead him away to the great questions over which the serious imagination loves to brood,--fortune, mutability, death,--just as inevitably as the runnel, trickling among the summer hills, on which sheep are bleating, leads you to the sea; or as, turning down the first street you come to in the city, you are led finally, albeit by many an intricacy, out into the open country, with its waste places and its woods, where you are lost in a sense of strangeness and solitariness. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
• In an instant every runnel was full. —  The Rules of the Game

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