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Pronunciation: [ɹˈɪlz] (IPA)

Rills are small channels or streams that usually form on the face of a slope. They are created by the flow of water or through soil erosion, and can be considered one of the first stages in the formation of a river. These channels can be described using synonyms such as rivulets, brooks, creeks, runnels, watercourses, and streams. Other synonyms include gullies, ditches, furrows, and troughs. Rills can often have a significant impact on the environment they flow through, as they help to transport nutrients and minerals downstream. These synonyms provide a rich vocabulary for describing the various forms of surface water that can be seen across the landscape.
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All these little rills, which water others, little compared with the fountain from which they flow, have no determinate choice of their own, but are governed by the will of their Lord and Master.
"Letters of Madam Guyon"
P. L. Upham
The tearing winds shriek over the ragged furze and mighty stones, and howl in the crevices of the monument above him; the great black clouds roll in, and the whole country is drowned in a blinding squall of hail; the sky clears, patches of brilliant blue appear, and the sun strikes down on the dripping stones, while all the little rills and streams race down the soaking ground and over the roads in the wayward manner of Cornish streams; and still the old chieftain sleeps on, lulled by all the music of Nature in this wild outpost which England thrusts into the sea.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
The powerful autumn sun soon melted it, and laughing rills ran down through all the little channels to the river in the valley.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach

Famous quotes with Rills

  • The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
    Washington Irving
  • 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.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
    Thomas Gray
  • The sunshine of the morning Is abroad upon the hills, With the singing of the green-wood leaves, And of a thousand rills.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • A thousand songs from a thousand boughs The glad birds' pleasure declare ; The rills are laughing in crystal light— For the presence of Spring is there.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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