Crossword clues for runnel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Runnel \Run"nel\, n. [From Run. Cf. Rindle.] A rivulet or small brook.
Bubbling runnels joined the sound.
--Collins.
By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow
runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming.
--Masson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rivulet," 1570s, in Hakluyt, alteration of Middle English ryneil, from Old English rinelle, rynel, a diminutive of ryne "a stream" (see run (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. A small stream, a rivulet. vb. (rfdef: English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "runnel".
Philadelphia, at tide jet-copters landing, the runnels of autocars and ramps of footers coming and going, into and out of every high-rise building in sight.
I lifted my right hand and wiped my forehead slowly in the signal I had arranged with Chubby, and as I dropped my hand again, I seized Sherry and rolled swiftly backwards into the shallow rain-washed runnel.
Several more shots tore through the thick plastic of the runnel, showing the environmentalist in no uncertain terms what had started Hawkes moving.
Because it would have been, and was, so unimportant, he did not see in the pale and exhausted girl in the bed any of the sudden runnels of roseal light which Lester now saw, as if the blood itself were changed and richly glowing through the weary flesh.
His wide feet, booted or not, knew the trails through the maze of pools and runnels and sinky spots.
Silty, soupy water had seeped into the various gashes and punctures on his body and now leaked in trickling runnels with every heavy step he took.
He was wading to the waist, and his coat and trousers streamed with runnels of orange-coloured light.
There were dried runnels, as of tears, in the dust on the cheeks, above the black beard, which was full of burrs, and thick and matted like the black hair of the head.
Major Dunlop overpowered the guards at the runnel entrance and took control of the Spinner cavern.
Folds of their skin hung in runnels, and long globs dangled from their outspread arms.
Runnels of foul sweat cut stark, weblike tributaries across their soiled faces and throats.
His face and beardless chins were beslobbered with runnels of grease, carrying particles of several different courses of the meal.
Blood seeped constantly onto the table, carried away by grooves and runnels cut into the metal.
At the second such, Iktis cursed sulfurously, damning all smugglers, the late madam, the Heritage and persons of whom Neeka had never heard for failing to keep the runnels in repair or at least apprising him of the locations and extents of disrepair.
The runnels of right wrapped around Sulu suddenly expanded outward and coalesced, wrapping him in a sheath of cobalt flame .