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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, in geology, one of the marks left by the rills formed by the retreating waters of a wave which breaks against a shore. Such rills often cut furrows in the sand which, if the sand hardens into rock, may be preserved with great fidelity.
- noun A marking or tracery formed upon any surface by the action of water trickling over it in little rills.
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hernesheir commented on the word rill-mark
Truly, "writ in water".
January 7, 2013