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rilling

rilling is the present participle and gerund 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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Proper noun capitalized: Rilling

Rilling (plural Rillings)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of rilling

pluralRillings

Origin of rilling

Borrowed from German Rilling.

Questions about rilling

What does rilling mean?
Rilling means a surname from German.
What is rilling the present participle and gerund of?
Rilling is the present participle and gerund of rill.
What part of speech is rilling?
Rilling is a proper noun.

Words near rilling in the dictionary

  1. rillest
  2. rillet
  3. rillets
  4. rillette
  5. rillettes
  6. rilling
  7. Rillings
  8. Rillington
  9. rills
  10. rilly
  11. rilmazafone

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