burnlet
burnlet noun: a small burn (stream).
Noun
burnlet (plural burnlets)
- A small burn (stream).
- […] streams often mere burnlets, where a 3-lb. fish has barely room to turn [around].1924, Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond: Arctic, Cheviot, Tropic, page 346
- Loch Katrine was "fed by thousands of tricling rills, meandering burnlets, and scintillant cascades.'" Although it was surrounded by '"thirty-thousand acres of untamed'" territory, the loch was only thirty miles northwest of the swarming and industrializing city of Glasgow.2006, Werner Troesken, The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster, page 169
Examples of burnlet in a sentence
- [...] sky-reflecting pools like tarnished silver buckles, and winding burnlets that wandered down from the hills to join the broad loop of the river that flowed out through Mhoin Mhor to the sea.2015, Rosemary Sutcliff, Scott O'Dell, The Mark of the Horse Lord, page 102:
- [...] water-meadows, of great outcropping rocks as big as houses, and long sweeping grassy aprons scored by burnlets innumerable.2012, Nigel Tranter, MacGregor's Gathering: MacGregor Trilogy 1:
Forms of burnlet
| plural | burnlets |
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Origin of burnlet
burn + -let
Questions about burnlet
- What does burnlet mean?
- Burnlet means a small burn (stream).
- How do you use burnlet in a sentence?
- [...] sky-reflecting pools like tarnished silver buckles, and winding burnlets that wandered down from the hills to join the broad loop of the river that flowed out through Mhoin Mhor to the sea.
- What part of speech is burnlet?
- Burnlet is a noun.
- What is the plural of burnlet?
- The plural of burnlet is burnlets.
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