riverling

English

Etymology

From river +‎ -ling.

Noun

riverling (plural riverlings)

1. (obsolete) A rivulet.
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:

     the lively Spring Of his Divineness, some small Riverling […]

References

• “riverling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.