riverling
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]riverling (plural riverlings)
- (obsolete) A rivulet.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
- the lively Spring Of his Divineness, some small Riverling […]
References
[edit]- “riverling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.