Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small, trickling stream; a rill.
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Examples
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One of the more pleasant calls for which the Saw-whet Owl is noted is a very melodious, tinkling sound that just cannot be reproduced in print but which has the remarkable quality of sounding almost exactly like a tricklet of water falling into a quiet little pool.
The Annotated Unbroken Chain Robert M. Petersen 2005
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After each blue wisp had been gulped down, they sipped and sucked at their fingers for any least tricklet of flavour that might be left; and at the last seemed more famished than when they began.
The Field of Clover Laurence Housman 1912
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A tricklet of a stream divides them, spanned by a bridge; and over the bridge at the time of my knowledge, the celebrated Shell House stood outpost on the west.
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