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Feb. 25, 2017
runnel\RUHN-l\noun
1. a small stream; brook; rivulet.
2. a small channel, as for water.
QuotesIt took me the whole day to reach the patch,--which I found
indeed a forest--but not a rudiment of brook or runnel had I crossed!
-- George MacDonald, Lilith, 1895
Origin of runnelRunnel entered English in the 1570s and combines the
noun run (in the sense small stream) with the diminutive suffix
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