- a variation of runnel.
runlet
Example Sentences
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The canary, which hung by the door in a cage, sent out a hard bright runlet of song.
From Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
It was a hut beside a tiny runlet of water—a kind of bower with the sides made of bog-oak stobs taken from the edges of the strands.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I have read in Plinius and Mela of a runlet near Dodona, which kindled by approximation an unlighted torch, and extinguished a lighted one.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
During a walk across the summer fields my foot has sometimes paused at the brink of a silvery runlet, and I have followed it backward in search of the spring.
From Aftermath by James Lane Allen
The blind, black pony felt the new life in the springy turf and the fresh air and flirted his unshod heels dangerously near to a tracking wolf-dog as he splashed through runlet and pool.
From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates
