rill

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English

Etymology

From or akin to West Frisian ril (“rill; a narrow channel”), Dutch ril (“rill; gully; trench; watercourse”), German Low German Rille, Rill (“a small channel; brook; furrow”), German Rille (“a groove; furrow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪl/
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    Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

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rill (plural rills)

  1. A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
    • 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: R Dodsley, , published 1753, →OCLC:
      [N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he
    • 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: John Murray, , by William Bulmer and Co. , published 1816, →OCLC, pages 55–56:
      So twice five miles of fertile ground / With walls and towers were girdled round: / And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, / Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree; / And here were forests ancient as the hills, / And folding sunny spots of greenery.
    • 1860, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Essay III. Wealth.”, in The Conduct of Life, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 101:
      The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    • 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:
      Light grew, and lo! the Company passed through another gateway, high-arched and broad, and a rill ran out beside them; and beyond, going steeply down, was a road between sheer cliffs, knife-edged against the sky far above.
  2. (planetology) Alternative form of rille.

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Translations

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.
    • 1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:
      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;
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 158:
      Alladad Khan was panting hard, soaked in sweat, and his rolled-up sleeve was all blood, blood rilling down his arm.

Irish

Etymology

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Verb

rill (present analytic rilleann, future analytic rillfidh, verbal noun rilleadh, past participle rillte)

  1. (transitive) riddle, sieve, sift
  2. (transitive) pour (as from sieve)

Conjugation

conjugation of rill (first conjugation – A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present rillim rilleann tú;
rillir† 		rilleann sé, sí rillimid rilleann sibh rilleann siad;
rillid† 		a rilleann; a rilleas rilltear
past rill mé; rilleas rill tú; rillis rill sé, sí rilleamar; rill muid rill sibh; rilleabhair rill siad; rilleadar a rill /
ar rill* 		rilleadh
past habitual rillinn rillteá rilleadh sé, sí rillimis; rilleadh muid rilleadh sibh rillidís; rilleadh siad a rilleadh /
a rilleadh* 		rilltí
future rillfidh mé;
rillfead 		rillfidh tú;
rillfir† 		rillfidh sé, sí rillfimid;
rillfidh muid 		rillfidh sibh rillfidh siad;
rillfid† 		a rillfidh; a rillfeas rillfear
conditional rillfinn rillfeá rillfeadh sé, sí rillfimis; rillfeadh muid rillfeadh sibh rillfidís; rillfeadh siad a rillfeadh /
a rillfeadh* 		rillfí
subjunctive present go rille mé;
go rillead† 		go rille tú;
go rillir† 		go rille sé, sí go rillimid;
go rille muid 		go rille sibh go rille siad;
go rillid† 		— go rilltear
past dá rillinn dá rillteá dá rilleadh sé, sí dá rillimis;
dá rilleadh muid 		dá rilleadh sibh dá rillidís;
dá rilleadh siad 		— dá rilltí
imperative rillim rill rilleadh sé, sí rillimis rilligí;
rillidh† 		rillidís — rilltear
verbal noun rilleadh
past participle rillte

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form

Derived terms

  • rilleán m (“riddle, coarse sieve”)

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