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Look up: rill

  1. Rill
    A small channel eroded into the soil by surface runoff; can be easily smoothed out or obliterated by normal tillage.
    Found on http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/

  2. rill
    [n] - a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Rill
    Rill (rĭl) noun [ Confer LG. rille a small channel or brook, a furrow, a chamfer, Middle English rigol a small brook, French rigole a trench or furrow for water, W. rhill a row, rhigol a little ditch. √11.] 1. A very small brook; a streamlet. 2. (Astron.) See Rille .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/83

  4. Rill
    Rill intransitive verb To run a small stream. [ R.] Prior.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/83

  5. rill
    1. A very small brook; a streamlet. ... 2. <astronomy> See Rille. ... Origin: Cf. LG. Rille a small channel or brook, a furrow, a chamfer, OE. Rigol a small brook, F. Rigole a trench or furrow for water, W. Rhill a row, rhigol a little ditch. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. Rill
    A `rill` is a narrow and shallow incision into soil resulting from erosion by overland flow that has been focused into a thin thread by soil surface roughness. `Rilling`, the process of rill formation, is common on agricultural land and unvegetated ground. Some rills will continue to grow, as they are widened and/or deepened by the runoff which flows through them. Other rills may decline in importance as sediment is deposited within them. Eventu...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rill

  7. Rill
    • (n.) A very small brook; a streamlet. • (v. i.) To run a small stream. • (n.) See Rille.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. Rill
    A very small steep sided channel carrying water. This landscape feature is intermittent and forms for only a short period of time after a rainfall.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo

  9. rill
    1. a small stream
    2. a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)

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