runlet

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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 Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

A small runlet here trickled down the kloof in a chain of water-holes.

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram

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 Payne, John

She heard a faint noise from the runlet of water in front of the camp.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe