trickle

About 1.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A very thin river.

   The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

2. noun A very thin flow; the sound of such a flow.

   The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

3. verb to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

   The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

4. verb to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

   Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

5. verb To move or roll slowly.

Similar words

drip filter dribble seep handful wisp doorknob net handle hilt

Often followed by

of down in into through from out irrigation and

Word family

trickled trickles trickling