Synonyms of runnel

runnel

noun

ˈrə-nᵊl 

as in creek

a natural body of running water smaller than a river

the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creek
• brook
• stream
• rivulet
• rill
• tributary
• canal
• streamlet
• brooklet
• burn
• bourn
• gill
• beck
• bayou
• runoff
• run
• fresh
• wash
• arroyo
• channel
• slough
• freshet
• coulee
• watercourse
• runlet
• waterway
• race
• distributary
• billabong
• millrace
• cutoff
• branch
• millstream
• kill
• affluent
• influent
• cut
• confluent
• gut

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of runnel

Water fun will be a big draw, whether observing the natural pond-like runnel feature or the chutes of tumbling water and inch-deep pools safe to play in. — Dallas News, 15 Apr. 2022

Designed by Louis Kahn for Jonas Salk, who created the polio vaccine, the complex sits on a shelf above the Pacific, a symmetrical white piazza flanked by buildings that are angled like a theater’s wings and bisected by a narrow runnel. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 15 Mar. 2021

In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and sluices through the deep runnels. — National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2019

The road ran like a twisty runnel through fuchsia hedges and bright fields of buttercups and cow parsley, up to a pass among the 3,000-foot Slieve Mish mountains. — New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019