runnel

A few rickety huts were plunked onto the mud, far from the runnels of the dropping tide.

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

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.

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

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.