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rilled

rilled is the simple past and past participle of rill.

Meaning of rill

Verb

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

  1. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
    • 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;1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86

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Questions about rilled

What is rilled the simple past and past participle of?
Rilled is the simple past and past participle of rill.

Words near rilled in the dictionary

  1. Rilkeana
  2. rill
  3. rill erosion
  4. Rilla
  5. rille
  6. rilled
  7. rillenkarren
  8. rilles
  9. rillest
  10. rillet
  11. rillets

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