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runlet

Syllables: run·letUK/ˈɹʌnlət/

runlet noun: a small brook or stream.

Noun (1)

runlet (plural runlets)

  1. A small brook or stream.
    • The biographer, especially of a literary man, need only mark the main currents of tendency, without being officious to trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest.1876, James Russell Lowell, “Milton”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 255
    • She followed the dry runlet to where a jutting shoulder formed a nook matted with briars.1931 February 9, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, New York, N.Y.: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, →OCLC

Noun (2)

runlet (plural runlets)

  1. (archaic) A wine measure, equivalent to 18 gallons.
    • […]our cellarer shall have orders to deliver to thee a butt of sack, a runlet of Malvesie, and three hogsheads of ale of the first strike, yearly—If that will not quench thy thirst, thou must come to court, and become acquainted with my butler.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages...

runlet meaning in Tamil

runlet in Tamil

சிறிய நீரோடை, சிற்றோடை, சிற்றாறு, தேறல்மிடா

Forms of runlet

pluralrunlets
alternative formrundlet

Origin of runlet

From run + -let. Compare runnel.

From Middle English roundelet, from Old French rondelet (“roundlet”). More at roundlet.

Words that rhyme with runlet

Questions about runlet

What does runlet mean?
Runlet means a small brook or stream.
What is runlet in Tamil?
Runlet in Tamil is சிறிய நீரோடை, சிற்றோடை, சிற்றாறு. See Runlet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is runlet?
Runlet is a noun.
How do you pronounce runlet?
Runlet is pronounced /ˈɹʌnlət/ (UK).
What is the plural of runlet?
The plural of runlet is runlets.

Words near runlet in the dictionary

  1. Runks
  2. runlength
  3. runlengths
  4. runless
  5. runlessness
  6. runlet
  7. runlets
  8. runlevel
  9. runlevels
  10. runman
  11. runmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: runlet (page history and authors); runlet (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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