TRICKLING

Verb

trickling

present participle of trickle

Noun

trickling (plural tricklings)

The act or result of something that trickles.

the tricklings of water down the cave walls

Source: Wiktionary


TRICKLE

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



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