Trickle
WordNet
noun
(1) Flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
"There's a drip through the roof"
verb
(2) Run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
"Water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"
"Reports began to dribble in"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Originally of tears; from , frequentative of , by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).
Noun
- A very thin river.
- The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
- A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
- The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
Verb
- to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
- The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
- to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
- Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
- The film ws so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.