Definition of Rivulets

1. Noun. (plural of rivulet) ¹

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Definition of Rivulets

1. rivulet [n] - See also: rivulet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rivulets

rivets
rivetted
rivetter
rivetting
riviation
rivieras
riviere
rivieres
riving
rivlin
rivlins
rivo
rivos
rivose
rivulet
rivulets (current term)
rivulose
rivulus
rivus lacrimalis
rix-baron
rix-dollar
rix-dollars
rixation
rixatrix
rixdaler
rixdalers
rixdollar
riyal
riyal-omani
riyals

Literary usage of Rivulets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... rivulets ran through a ... neither fountains nor rivulets ; but by digging wells to the depth of a hundred, ..."

2. Specimen Days & Collect by Walt Whitman (1883)
"PREFACE, 1876, to the two-volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and " Two rivulets." Ax the eleventh hour, under grave illness, I gather up the pieces of ..."

3. What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer by Julian R. Jackson (1841)
"rivulets.—Nothing can well be more vague than the line which separates what is called a ... rivulets, however, for want of a more precise definition, ..."

4. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1827)
"On the west (through Frenchtown) five small rivulets. Thence 2 miles, 55.55 chains. Fall 2.4 feet. Soil on the east, alluvial- On the west. ..."

5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"A notice of its rivers, rivulets, and how far they are navigable? An inspection of a map of Virginia, will give a better idea of the geography of its rivers ..."

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