Luxembourgish

Noun

Rill f ‎(plural Rillen)

1. furrow, groove

English

Noun

rill ‎(plural rills)

1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan:

     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.

2. (planetology) Alternative form of rille

Derived terms

• rillet

Translations

Verb

rill ‎(third-person singular simple present rills, present participle rilling, simple past and past participle rilled)

1. To run a small stream.
   • 1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:

     And fainter, finer, trickle far

     To where the listening uplands are;

     To pause—then from his gurgling bill

     Let the warbled sweetness rill,

     And down the welkin, gushing free,

     Hark the molten melody;