Rill
WordNet
noun
(1) A small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)
(2) A small stream
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A very small brook; a streamlet.
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan:
- So twice five miles of fertile ground
- With walls and towers were girdled round :
- And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
- Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
- And here were forests ancient as the hills,
- Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: