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/
    Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

rill (plural rills)

  1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
    • 1751 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
      ...nor yet beside the rill,
      Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he
    • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan:
      So twice five miles of fertile ground
      With walls and towers were girdled round:
      And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
      Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
      And here were forests ancient as the hills,
      Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
  2. (planetology) Alternative form of rille.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rill (third-person singular simple present rills, present participle rilling, simple past and past participle rilled)

  1. 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;

Irish

Verb

rill (present analytic rilleann, future analytic rillfidh, verbal noun rilleadh, past participle rillte)

  1. (transitive) riddle, sieve, sift
  2. (transitive) pour (as from sieve)

Conjugation
First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
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”)

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