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runnel

[ ruhn-l ]

noun

  1. a small stream; brook; rivulet.
  2. a small channel, as for water.


runnel

/ ˈ°ùÊŒ²ÔÉ™±ô /

noun

  1. literary.
    a small stream
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of runnel1

First recorded in 1570–80; run (in the sense “small streamâ€) + -el diminutive suffix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of runnel1

C16: from Old English rynele ; related to run
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A few rickety huts were plunked onto the mud, far from the runnels of the dropping tide.

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It’s outfitted with grooves known as runnels, for bicyclists to roll their tires.

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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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Reported the San Francisco Chronicle: “The sidewalks and runnels were strewn with the relics of a torturous month.â€

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He stared at the daubs and streaks and runnels of red, and this newest mystery, it wasn’t a pathway of light burning lines through his mind.

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