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rill
1[ ril ]
noun
- a small rivulet or brook.
rill
2or rille
[ ril ]
noun
Astronomy.
- any of certain long, narrow, straight or sinuous trenches or valleys observed on the surface of the moon.
rill
/ °ùɪ±ô /
noun
- a brook or stream; rivulet
- a small channel or gulley, such as one formed during soil erosion
- Alsorille one of many winding cracks on the moon
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rill1
1530–40; < Dutch or Low German; compare Frisian ril
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rill1
C15: from Low German rille ; related to Dutch ril
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And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
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My filly’s whinny, timid trill: I’m sitting by this icy rill, In wintry, frigid wild?
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Past gardens have included impressive boulder-strewn waterfalls, trickling rills and reflective ponds.
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All this lethal offal seeped and oozed into the ground, into the rills and runnels that flowed beneath our town, where we all drank well-water.
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Water, and lack of water, is a recurring theme, represented by two ponds connected by a dry rill.
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