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# runnel

«runnel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A very small stream or brook** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a runnel, runnels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A very small stream or brook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#m1)

2) A small channel of running water, such as rain running down a path or gutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Nature and geography words for water: smaller than a stream. In stories it gives a quiet, detailed picture of the countryside, like the ditches and little streams along the river bank in The Wind in the Willows.

### examples

- A little runnel trickled down the hillside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#x1)
- Rain made runnels in the sandy path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#x2)
- We built a dam across the runnel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#x3)
- Runnels of water ran off the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#x4)
- The frog sat by a muddy runnel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#x5)
- Sweat ran in runnels down his face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/#x6)

### note

Plural: runnels. Smaller than a brook or stream; similar words: rill, rivulet, trickle.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «runnel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/runnel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.