2 May 2018
runnel
[ruhn-l]
noun
1. a small stream; brook; rivulet.
2. a small channel, as for water.
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Also, runlet [ruhn-lit]
Origin of runnel
1570-1580; run (noun) + -el diminutive suffix
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Examples from the Web for runnel
Historical Examples
Just before him a runnel of water is gliding, and he bends his head to drink.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Charles H. Sylvester
He had a narrow thread of solid path, and he forced me into a runnel.
Miss Cayley’s Adventures
Grant Allen
When he came again it was on a dark day in November, and every runnel of the fens was swollen.
The Path of the King
John Buchan
On our left was the gorge, down which tumbled the runnel of water which I have before mentioned.
The Bible in Spain
George Borrow
I went up the field with the lane on my right, down which ran a runnel of water, from which doubtless the house derived its name.
Wild Wales
George Borrow
The rock looked exactly like a huge whale lying on its side, with its back turned towards the runnel.
Wild Wales
George Borrow
Thus it is possible that a runnel of the blood of “le grand monarque” tripped through Burton’s veins.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Thomas Wright
It took me the whole day to reach the patch,—which I found indeed a forest—but not a rudiment of brook or runnel had I crossed!
Lilith
George MacDonald
There are little groves of bamboo and chestnut and willow; and a runnel of water is somewhere—I can hear it.
An Englishwoman’s Love-Letters
Anonymous
Peebles had disappeared; Dake lay in his rags on the ground; runnel rocked slowly, like a pendulum, in his ceaseless pain.
The Happy End
Joseph Hergesheimer
Today’s quote
Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.
– Andres Fernandez, The Man Frozen In Time
On this day
2 May 1519 – death of Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian renaissance inventor, painter, sculptor, mathematician, writer. Born 15 April 1452.
2 May 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
2 May 1568 – Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
2 May 1611 – the King James Bible is published for the first time in London by Robert Barker.
2 May 1933 – Within months of becoming Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions. Hitler saw unions as organising the power of workers which could be a threat to his power. Police arrested union leaders and confiscated union money. The funds had essentially been provided by workers so to quell any worker uprisings, Hitler created the German Labour Force to replace the unions and to supposedly represent workers’ rights. The GLF was sold to the workers under a veil of patriotism. Strikes were banned and labelled un-German. He further duped the workers under the ‘Strength Through Joy’ movement that offered them subsided holidays and other events. To reduce unemployment he introduced forced labour. Any worker refusing to take up a job assigned to them, was imprisoned. Under the GLF wages dropped while the cost of living of increased 25%. (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/trade-unions-and-nazi-germany/)
2 May 1986 – The Ukrainian city of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the nuclear reactor disaster.
2 May 2011 – Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of Al Qaeda, FBI’s most wanted man, is killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Born 10 March 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.