rindle means A small stream or rivulet; a watercourse or gutter. It carries an Arena rating of 1625, earned across 16 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, rindle ranks #874 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #948 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,763 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #2,267 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words.
rindle is pronounced /ˈɹɪndəl/.
Why “rindle” is a great word
A small stream or rivulet, particularly an incidental watercourse or gutter. From Middle English rendel, a variant with intrusive 'd' of rinel, which is from Old English rynel ("that which runs; stream"), from the verb rinnan ("to run"). Unlike a named "brook" or the more standard "runnel," a rindle is the transient architecture of runoff: the sun-warmed channel carved by a day's rain across a dirt path, the thin silver line at the curbstone after a storm, or the purposeful trickle in a stone gutter—a humble conductor of the world’s excess, too slight to have a name of its own.
Etymology
From Middle English rendel and other variants with d of rinel, whence also the more common form runnel: see that entry for more.
noun
- A small stream or rivulet; a watercourse or gutter.e.g.“… a rindle o' wetur wur wheem, …” — 1850 (originally 1740?), Dialect of south Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and …, page 17
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