Rivulet

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹɪv.jÉ™.lÉ™t/

Origin

Old French riveret ("little stream").

Full definition of rivulet

Noun

1. A small brook or stream; a streamlet.
   A rivulet of tears ran down his face.
• Charles Cotton (1630-1687)Rills running down the steepest slopes develop into rivulets.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 23, The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.