Rill vs Roil - What's the difference?

rill | roil |

As verbs the difference between rill and roil

is that rill is to run a small stream while roil is to render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.

As a noun rill

is a very small brook; a streamlet.

rill

English

Noun

(wikipedia rill) (en noun)

A very small brook; a streamlet.

* 1797 , :

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.

(planetology)

Verb

(en verb)

To run a small stream.

(Prior)

roil

English

Verb

(en verb)

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of

* To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles

* To roil a spring.

To annoy; to make someone angry.

* R. North

That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.

To bubble, seethe.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}

(obsolete) To wander; to roam.

(obsolete, UK, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

(Halliwell)

(Webster 1913)

Synonyms

* irritate

Anagrams

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