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runnel

/ruhn-l/US // ˈrʌn l //UK // (ˈrʌnəl) //

跑道,流道,流水线,流水线型

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small stream; brook; rivulet.
    • : a small channel, as for water.

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Examples

  • Clear water trickled through a wooden runnel into a great stone trough outside near the door.

  • Thus it is possible that a runnel of the blood of "le grand monarque" tripped through Burton's veins.

  • 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!

  • Peebles had disappeared; Dake lay in his rags on the ground; Runnel rocked slowly, like a pendulum, in his ceaseless pain.

  • And I stood on the curb watching the iridescent ooze of the sewage in a runnel of the street seep along like a sick snake.