rill
See also: Rill
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/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪl
Noun
rill (plural rills)
- 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[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, OCLC 519198867:
- [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 1380031, 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 773234300, 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.
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- (planetology) Alternative form of rille.
Derived terms
- rillet
Translations
very small brook
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Verb
rill (third-person singular simple present rills, present participle rilling, simple past and past participle rilled)
- 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.
- 1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:
Irish
Etymology
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Verb
rill (present analytic rilleann, future analytic rillfidh, verbal noun rilleadh, past participle rillte)
- (transitive) riddle, sieve, sift
- (transitive) pour (as from sieve)
Conjugation
First Conjugation (A)
singular | plural | relative | autonomous | ||||||
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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”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “rill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “rillim” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “rill” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.