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Webster 1913 Edition


Trickle

Tric′kle

(trĭk′k’l)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Trickled
(trĭk′k’ld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Trickling
(trĭk′klĭng)
.]
[OE.
triklen
, probably for
striklen
, freq. of
striken
to flow, AS.
strīcan
. See
Strike
,
Verb.
T.
]
To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
His salt tears
trickled
down as rain.
Chaucer.
Fast beside there
trickled
softly down
A gentle stream.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trickle

TRICK'LE

,
Verb.
I.
[allied perhaps to Gr. to run, and a diminutive.]
To flow in a small gentle stream; to run down; as, tears trickle down the cheek; water trickles from the eaves.
Fast beside there trickled softly down
A gentle stream.

Definition 2024


trickle

trickle

English

Noun

trickle (plural trickles)

Examples
  1. A very thin river.
    The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
  2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
    The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.
    • James Bryce
      The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

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Verb

trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

Water is trickling down this boy's face.
  1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
    The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
    Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
      Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
    • 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
      Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.

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