- a variation of runnel.
runlet
Example Sentences
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Then to a runlet forth he went, And brought a wallet from the bent, And bade me to the meal, intent I should not quit his neighborhood.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
Hamza's shadowy figure crossed a little bridge of palm-wood that spanned the runlet of water, turned and came over the waste ground noiselessly into the camp.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
Then there were two runlets of salt pork, containing about ninety pounds each, and in the centre of each runlet were two hams.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Trying first the casks, which she believed to be filled with oil, she found them full of seawater, save that there was in each maybe a runlet of oil at the top near the bunghole.
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
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
