| 释义 |
rillet|ˈrɪlɪt|
Also 6 ryllet.
[f. rill n.1 + -et1 or -let.]
A small rill or rivulet; a brooklet.
1538Leland Itin. (1769) V. 37 Ther cummith a litle Ryllet by this square Toure... There be other smaulle Ryllettys yn Molesdale. 1598Stow Surv. 13 Diuers rilles or rillets to the Riuer of Thames. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 264 Those rillets that attend proud Tamer and her state. 1678Hobbes Decam. v. 55 A thousand small Rillets of melting Snow fall down into it.
1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. 48 From the green rivage many a fall Of diamond rillets musical. 1871Meredith H. Richmond xlv, A single tent stood in a gully.., near an iron-red rillet. 1890H. M. Stanley Darkest Africa I. ix. 223 A score of lazy, oozy rillets.
Comb.1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 1476 Let the world's praise or blame run rillet-wise Off the broad back.
b. transf. and fig.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. To Rdr. (1651) 14 This by-stream, which as a rillet, is deducted from the main chanel of my studies. 1626Shirley Brothers i. i, Francisco and Fernando are two rillets from one spring. 1885Meredith Diana II. xiii. 310 Then was heard such a rillet of dialogue..as nowhere else in Britain. |