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Rilled vs Rillet - What's the difference?

rilled | rillet |

As a verb rilled

is past tense of rill.

As a noun rillet is

a little rill.

rilled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rill)

  • 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)

    rillet

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A little rill.
  • * 1953 , publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
  • First, a pearly white, unrelieved, then a trace of faint darkness here and there, and finally, the fine neatly printed equations in black, with an occasional red hairline that wavered through the darker forest like a staggering rillet .
    From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical. — Tennyson.
    English words suffixed with -et English words suffixed with -let