- a variation of runnel.
runlet
Example Sentences
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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 Gates, Eleanor
He carried him carefully to the partial shelter of a rock, and propped him up, and gave him water from a runlet close by.
From White Fire by Oxenham, John
He did not recognize that this tiniest runlet which fell back at once was of the same element as the tidal wave which had swept over him yesternight.
From Red Pottage by Cholmondeley, Mary
Baldassarre, looking up blankly from the search in the runlet that brought him nothing, had seen a white object coming along the broader stream.
From Romola by Eliot, George
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
