brooklet
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
brooklet (plural brooklets)
- A little brook.
- 1874, George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action[1]:
- Vast forests have disappeared from mountain spurs and ridges; […] rivers famous in history and song have shrunk to humble brooklets; […]
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.