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• n  a small stream
• n  a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)

• One of education's better ironies is that the broad, stately river of classified knowledge named Encyclopaedia Britannica began 190 years ago in a clear, sparkling rill of Scotch .
• Without its spiritual guid ance, "God knows what religion we would have possibly Druidism, if we have a Celtic rill in our veins.
• Desperation and The Regulators will bring a return to sturdier, more surefire thrills: heaps and heaps of gore (the words rill and freshet crop up in relation to hemorrhaging .

• rivulet
• run
• runnel
• streamlet

News & Articles

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• Fairfax 14-year-old Bennett Rill mourned after ‘terrible tragedy’
  Hours after Bennett Rill graduated from eighth grade in Fairfax County, he apparently was electrocuted.
  June 20, 2013 - Washington Post
• Group hopes to revive Meadow Grounds Lake
  Hundreds of dead fish were buried last week at the former Meadow Grounds Lake. Roaring Run today is little more than a rill wandering across a moonscape.
  June 20, 2013 - Chambersburg Public Opinion

Quotes

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• Ralph Edwards in Washington Post
  His third-grade teacher said he knew every rock and rill in the Rockies. And he said, 'Yeah, and I knew every saloon, too,'Edwards recalled. "The rating kept going up during the show as people called their friends to tune in."
• Nick Tosches in EastsideBoxing.com
  This is how Tosches describes Liston's birth place: "It was in the sector of Morledge Plantation that lay in Johnson Township, St. Francis County, that Tobe Liston and his family came to live and farm, on a low patch where a rill of muddy water, a...