Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small spring of water; a rill.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A little spring; a small stream.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, minor spring.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A little spring.
Etymologies
- spring + -let (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
“E'en as from aëry heights of mountain springeth a springlet”
“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.”
Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago
“The biggest was the appearance of a small springlet, after a sudden downpour, in what we thought was a very dry basement.”
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spring phrases
spring has sprung
spring-ague, spring ambulance, spring and fall, spring-arbor, spring-balance, spring-bar, spring barley, spring-barrel, spring-beam, spring-beauty, spring-bed, spring-bell and 292 more...
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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nouns - positive
these are nouns that are nice
knickerbockers, winterer, plenum, moonglade, volery, sweven, réchauffé, ruelle, heartsease, brisance, euneirophrenia, springlet and 5 more...
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