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run⋅nel

  [ruhn-l]
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–noun
1. a small stream; brook; rivulet.
2. a small channel, as for water.
Also, run⋅let  [ruhn-lit] .

Origin:
1570–80; run (n.) + -el dim. suffix
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run·let   (rŭn'lĭt)   
n.  A rivulet.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Runlet

Run"let\, n. [Run + -let.] A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.

To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. --Lowell.

Runlet

Run"let\, n. Same as Rundlet. "A stoup of sack, or a runlet of canary." --Sir W. Scott.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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