Trickle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Trickle	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Trickle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trickle n flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" Synonym(s): drip, trickle, dribble v run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" Synonym(s): trickle, dribble, filter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trickle \Tric"kle\, n. The act or state of trickling; also, that which trickles; a small stream; drip. Streams that . . . are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud. --James Bryce.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trickle \Tric"kle\ (tr[icr]k"k'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trickled} (tr[icr]k"k'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Trickling} (tr[icr]k"kl[icr]ng).] [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str[imac]can. See {Strike}, v. t.] To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops. His salt tears trickled down as rain. --Chaucer. Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream. --Spenser.