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runlet

noun

Etymology

From Middle English roundelet, from Old French rondelet (“roundlet”). More at roundlet.

  1. derived from rondelet
  2. inherited from roundelet

Definitions

  1. A small brook or stream.

    • The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.
    • She followed the dry runlet to where a jutting shoulder formed a nook matted with briars.

  2. A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA