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Runnel vs Rill - What's the difference?

runnel | rill |

As nouns the difference between runnel and rill

is that runnel is a small stream, a rivulet while rill is a very small brook; a streamlet.

As verbs the difference between runnel and rill

is that runnel is 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014 while rill is to run a small stream.

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.

    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)