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rillet

/ˈɹɪlɪt/

rillet noun: a little rill.

Noun

rillet (plural rillets)

  1. A little rill.
    • From the green rivage many a fall / Of diamond rillets musical, […]1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part V, page 25
    • 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.1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books publication), part II: “Search by the Foundation”, chapter 8: ‘Seldon’s Plan’, page 86, ¶ 1

rillet meaning in Tamil

rillet in Tamil

சீறதர்

Forms of rillet

pluralrillets
alternative formryllet

Origin of rillet

From rill (“brook, rivulet, small stream”) + either -et or -let.

Questions about rillet

What does rillet mean?
Rillet means a little rill.
What is rillet in Tamil?
Rillet in Tamil is சீறதர். See Rillet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rillet?
Rillet is a noun.
How do you pronounce rillet?
Rillet is pronounced /ˈɹɪlɪt/.
What is the plural of rillet?
The plural of rillet is rillets.

Words near rillet in the dictionary

  1. rille
  2. rilled
  3. rillenkarren
  4. rilles
  5. rillest
  6. rillet
  7. rillets
  8. rillette
  9. rillettes
  10. rilling
  11. Rillings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rillet (page history and authors); rillet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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