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Runnel vs Runnet - What's the difference?

runnel | runnet |

As nouns the difference between runnel and runnet

is that runnel is a small stream, a rivulet while runnet is .

As a verb runnel

is .

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.

    runnet

    English

    Noun

    • (Webster 1913)