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rills

rills is the plural of rill.

Meaning of rill

Noun

rill (plural rills)

  1. A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
    • [N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley...

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What is rills the plural of?
Rills is the plural of rill.

Words near rills in the dictionary

  1. rillette
  2. rillettes
  3. rilling
  4. Rillings
  5. Rillington
  6. rills
  7. rilly
  8. rilmazafone
  9. rilmenidine
  10. rilonacept
  11. rilpivirine

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