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Meanings of little runnel in English

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Usage of little runnel in English
1
He knelt with the child in his arms by a little runnel in the ditch-bank.
John Halifax, Gentleman
2
A little runnel of water, half ditch, half sewer, flowed beside the old plank walk.
The Web of Life
3
By a similar artifice the engineer would change his meagre little runnel into an inexhaustible fountain.
The History of a Mouthful of Bread / And its effect on the organ...
4
At last I spied him, his back to a rock, his hand dabbled for coolness in a little runnel that trickled at his side.
At a Winter's Fire
5
Patches of congealed plastic ridged the metal underfoot, trapping little runnels of bitter condensation.
The Centauri Device
6
He made little runnels that the tide filled and tried to crowd them with creatures.
Lord of the Flies
7
After him came a dozen black-robed janissaries with scimitars along which the light of the torches rippled in little runnels as of blood.
The Sea-Hawk
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