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Definition of Runnel
1. Noun. A small stream.
Generic synonyms: Stream, Watercourse
Derivative terms: Run, Stream
Definition of Runnel
1. n. A rivulet or small brook.
Definition of Runnel
1. Noun. a small stream, a rivulet ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Runnel
1. a small stream [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runnel
Literary usage of Runnel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"Take milk, and put it into an earthen pot and nut thereto runnel, let it stand
two days, it will be allin a curd, then season it with some sugar, cinnamon, ..."
2. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1850)
"A patient of Dr. Cheyne's, a young man of twenty, was drowned in his own garden
by falling into a little runnel of water, which was not four inches deep ..."
3. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"... listened; runnel v. Minneapolis etc. Ry. Co., 18 ND 383, 121 NW 836, applying
rule where no person saw accident; Whaley v. Vidal, 27 SD 636, 132 NW 246, ..."
4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"... Replies of birds from brake to brake, Winged whispers through the leaves where
wake Plash of the runnel on its stones, Soft voices, sweet for summer's ..."
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