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Webster 1913 Edition
Rillet
Rill′et
,Noun.
A little rill.
Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rillet
RILL'ET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
rillet
rillet
English
Alternative forms
- ryllet [16th century]
Noun
rillet (plural rillets)
- A little rill.
- 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books Ltd publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1
- First, a pearly white, unrelieved, then a trace of faint darkness here and there, and finally, the fine neatly printed equations in black, with an occasional red hairline that wavered through the darker forest like a staggering rillet.
- From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical. — Tennyson.
- 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books Ltd publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1