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Runlet vs Runnel - What's the difference?

runlet | runnel |

As nouns the difference between runlet and runnel

is that runlet is a small stream or brook or runlet can be (archaic) a wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons while runnel is a small stream, a rivulet.

As a verb runnel is

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runlet

English

Etymology 1

From . Compare (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small stream or brook.
  • * Lowell
    • To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 91:
    • She followed the dry runlet to where a jutting shoulder formed a nook matted with briars.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons.

    • runnel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a small stream, a rivulet
  • * 1998', great chambers in the rock where all sorts of plants were growing, under windows which had been cut to let in the sun, and glazed to adjust his warmth, and where '''runnels of water ran between fruit trees and seedlings — AS Byatt, ''Elementals

    • Derived terms

    * runnelling

    Verb

  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • The people who settled here weren’t farmers. They hunted. Yet they built a large amphitheater of mud, a platform carefully runneled to carry liquid—possibly blood.