- a variation of runnel.
runlet
Example Sentences
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A tiny runlet as they last looked upon it—a mere brook, pellucid and sparkling as the sand on its bed.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
The pinons afforded their farinaceous cones, the agave yielded its esculent roots, and the prairie-turnip grew upon the borders of the runlet.
From The Boy Hunters by Unknown
A runlet of sparkling water babbled down a stone channel in the middle of the street.
From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
A narrow bridge of logs led across a sedgy runlet, which, like many mountain streams, was unfordable, except in occasional spots.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
It is not worth while to enter into any calculation of the relation borne by this runlet to the great torrents which descend from the chain of Mont Blanc into the valley of Chamouni.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
