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rindlen. Origin: Probably a word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Probably a merging of two distinct but closely related Germanic base forms: (i) Old English rinnelle (weak feminine) stream, brook < an ablaut variant (e -grade) of the Germanic base of run v. (compare Middle Low German rinne channel, gutter, water pipe, Old High German rinna channel, gutter (Middle High German rinne watercourse, spring, channel, gutter, water pipe, German Rinne channel, gutter, groove), Gothic rinno torrent) + the Germanic base of -el suffix1; and (ii) Old English rynele (weak feminine) stream, brook, and rynel (strong masculine) stream, brook, also runner, messenger, both < an ablaut variant (zero-grade) of the Germanic base of run v. (compare rune n.1 and the Germanic forms cited at that entry) + the Germanic base of -el suffix1.In later Scots use in α. forms perhaps an alteration of runnel n.1 after rin, Scots variant of run v. With the intrusive d in the β. forms compare the similar development in the synonym rundle n.2 Now chiefly Scottish and English regional ( northern and north midlands). the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > rivulet or runnel α. eOE (Mercian) (1965) lxiv. 11 Uisitasti terram et inebriasti eam.., riuos eius inebrians : ðu niosades eorðan & ðu indrenctes hie..rinnellan his indrencende. OE 260/2 Riuos : rynelas. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) ii. Introd. 94 Se æftra stream þære godcundan spræce, se cymð of þære rynelan [OE Otho burnan, OE Hatton burnon] þæs gastlican æsprynges. lOE lxiv. 11 Rivos eius inebrians : his reneles drencende. a1225 ( (Winteney) (1888) lxxiii. 147 Odðe hwilc boc, þe ure lareowas macede..þæt ne seȝd, þæt we þurh rihtne rynolne [OE Corpus Cambr. mid rihtum færelde; L. cursu] cume to þam þe us ȝesceop. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) lxiv. 11 Fylland hys ryneils [L. rivos] multiplie þou his buryon. ?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton (Harl. 6579) i. lv. f. 37v (MED) Þou art lik vnto a man whilk hadde in his gardin a stinkinde welle wiþ many renneles fro it. 1508 in J. Stuart (1844) I. 78 Nay litstaris..sall wesche thar stuf in the loche nor common rinelis [printed riuelis] of the toune. c1540 (?a1400) 5709 The rynels wex red of the ronke blode. c1540 (?a1400) 7506 Þe Rinels of red blode ran doun his chekes. 1857 H. S. Riddell cxix. 136 Girt rinnals o' water rin down mine eyne. 1936 J. G. Horne 9 We'll scoug the sudden, slantin shooer An' hear the rinnals sing. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel I. 244 Gutter (the kind running along the side of a paved street), [Orkney] Rinnel. β. ?a1425 (a1415) (Harl.) (1917) 62 (MED) He schal be as a tree þat is wijsli plauntid biside þe rendels of watris. (Harl. 221) 29 Bek watyr, rendylle [Winch. rendyl], rivulus, torrens.1547 W. Salesbury Frwd ne afon vach, a ryndel.1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus ii. xi. 259 A garden plotte of delighte, full of swiete rindles of Christalline watre.1671 (Royal Soc.) 5 2016 There runs near it (at least in the Winter season) a small rindle (or gutter rather).1686 R. Plot ii. 42 Its subservient branches.., and innumerable other Rindles that fall into them.?1748 ‘T. Bobbin’ (ed. 2) 8 O Rindle o Wetur.1841 S. Bamford 113 Through the whole length of the valley, wends a sickly tan colored rindle.1847 J. O. Halliwell II Rindel, a rivulet... A gutter is still so called in Lancashire.1861 E. Waugh 29 Fed by rindles and driblets from springs in the wood-shaded steep.1907 L. M. Eilshemius 371 Flowers blooming where the rindle curves—And with many a sally swerves Withround the mossy rock.1974 D. Wilson 53 Rindle, a rivulet.1997 C. Frazier (2000) 304 There was just a bare rindle of blood from the cut, as if he had not enough left for the new wound to do more than sweat a few red drops.2008 (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Travel section) 4 The region [sc. the White Peak] is a verdant sweep of steep-sided dales and rounded ridges,..ravines with waterfalls, shallow rindles, [etc.].This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rindlev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rindle n. Chiefly Scottish and English regional ( north-western). Now rare. the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] 1863 [implied in: B. Brierley 197 It winds by a rindlin' wayter side. (at rindling adj.)]. 1895 S. R. Crockett xliv. 312 The burn..now standing stagnant in pools, now rindling clear over slaty stones. 1901 F. E. Taylor Rindle, to run; to flow. Applied to water. a1963 A. Holdsworth in H. G. Klaus (1993) 30 Nearby, a stream of clear mountain water rindled through rushes and ferns to a fordable river. 2008 M. M. Buckner 134 Another wave rindled over the dock like ocean surf. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE v.1863 |