Trickle

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  • intransitive verb. To flow or fall in drops or in a thin stream.
  • intransitive verb. To move or proceed slowly or bit by bit.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to trickle.
  • noun. The act or condition of trickling.
  • noun. A slow, small, or irregular quantity that moves, proceeds, or occurs intermittently.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A trickling stream; a rill.
  • noun. See the quotation.
  • To flow in a small interrupted stream; run down in drops: as, water trickles from the eaves.
  • To let fall a liquid in drops or small broken streams; drip.
  • To pass or flow gently like a small stream.
  • To cause to trickle; pour or shed in small, slow streams.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip.
  • intransitive verb. To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A very thin river.
  • noun. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
  • verb. to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
  • verb. to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
  • verb. To move or roll slowly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
  • verb. run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
  • Word Usage
    "Then a plastic over that, and then in that is a what they call a trickle line or hose."
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    dribble  drip  drizzle  droplet  flicker  
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