Rilled vs Rillet - What's the difference?
rilled | rillet |
(rill)
A very small brook; a streamlet.
* 1797 , :
(planetology)
A little rill.
* 1953 , publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
As a verb rilled
is past tense of rill.As a noun rillet is
a little rill.rilled
English
Verb
(head)rill
English
Noun
(wikipedia rill) (en noun)- 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.
rillet
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
