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rill¹

  • /ɹɪl/

Rhymes with -ɪl

Where it comes from

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”).

noun rills

  1. A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet. [N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he
  2. alternative Alternative form of rille.rille

verb rills · rilling · rilled

  1. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream. 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;

rill²

Where it comes from

A stylized variant of real prevalent in hip-hop.

adjective

  1. slang Real.

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