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Verb (1)trickles, trickled, trickling

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”Synonyms: dribble filterMore general run, flowMore specific leach, percolate

Noun (1)trickles

flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid“there's a drip through the roof”Synonyms: drip dribbleType of flow, flowingKinds intravenous drip

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Tric′kle (trĭk′k'l), intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Trickled (trĭk′k'ld); present participle & verbal noun Trickling (trĭk′klĭng).]

Origin: OE. triklen, probably for striklen, freq. of striken to flow, AS. strīcan. See Strike, transitive verb

To flow in a small, gentle stream; to run in drops.

His salt tears trickled down as rain.— Geoffrey Chaucer

Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream.— Edmund Spenser

Tric′kle noun

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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement