trickles
plural of trickle
trickles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trickle
• Stickler, stickler, strickle, ticklers
Source: Wiktionary
Tric"kle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trickled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trickling.] Etym: [OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. str. See Strike, v. t.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 November 2024
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
