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English
Etymology
From Middle English rendel and other variants with d of rinel, whence also the more common form runnel: see that entry for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
rindle (plural rindles)
- A small stream or rivulet; a watercourse or gutter.
- 1850 (originally 1740?), Dialect of south Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and , page 17:
- a rindle o' wetur wur wheem,
- c. 1893, George Milner (editor), Edwin Waugh (author), Heather, in Lancaster Sketches Second Series, page 284 (quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary):
- sweat running down i' greight rindles
References
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co
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