Trickle

Noun

 * 1) A very thin river.
 * The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.
 * 1) 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.

Verb

 * 1)  to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
 * The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
 * 1)  to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
 * Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
 * The film ws so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
 * 1) *1897,, 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.
 * 1)  To move or roll slowly.

Thesaurus
a few, condensation, condense, distill, distillation, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, dripple, drizzle, drop, exude, filter, flow, gurgle, handful, leach, leaching, leak, leak out, leakage, leaking, limited number, lixiviate, lixiviation, only a few, ooze, percolate, percolation, piddling few, piddling number, rivulet, run, runlet, runnel, scattering, seep, seepage, seeping, small number, spill, sprinkling, spurtle, sweat, sweating, too few, tricklet, trill, weep

Etymology
Originally of tears; from strickle:, frequentative of strike:, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).

Noun

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 * Finnish:
 * German: Tröpfeln, Getröpfel


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Verb

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 * German: tröpfeln, träufeln


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 * German: tröpfeln

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